UK - The twin circles of deep purple on the back of each of her daughter’s hands appeared almost innocuous at first. Tori Barber thought her bright, outgoing ten-year-old must have been drawing on her hands with a pen. In fact, though, the patches of darkened flesh were a type of burn, caused when Tori’s daughter sprayed an aerosol deodorant with the nozzle right up against her skin to create a freezing sensation. The result is akin to frostbite. The purple circles were just the start. Within 24 hours the schoolgirl was in hospital in excruciating pain, and doctors were warning that skin grafts might be needed to tackle the blistering burns. So what on earth had possessed her to do this? The answer: a ‘fun’ challenge some children in her class had seen on the video-sharing platform TikTok. She and her friend had tried it during a sleepover.

WALES, UK - Head teachers have welcomed a High Court ruling that compulsory relationships and sexuality lessons for all children can go ahead at the start of term in Wales but the Welsh Conservative shadow education minister said she was disappointed by the ruling. A group of five parents lost their legal action to block the lessons in a High Court hearing on August 31. “We understand the plight of the parents in seeking to do this via the courts but understand and respect the judge’s decision today. However this is a discussion that needs to be had and the concerns of parents need to be heard. Sadly the Labour Government seem intent on ignoring the will of many parents across Wales. Fundamentally the decision should be in their hands, not the state’s.” The High Court ruling follows Wales' education minister Jeremy Miles saying claims about the new sex education curriculum have “absolutely no basis in truth whatsoever”.

USA - To understand the future of America, don’t head to Washington, DC. Instead, talk to the governors of its most conservative state, Mississippi, and its most progressive one, California. Bespectacled and calmly confident, Mississippi’s Republican governor, Tate Reeves, is on a high. It was his state’s 2018 ban on abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy that returned the issue to the Supreme Court, setting the stage for the reversal of Roe v Wade in June, a decision which gave all state governments the freedom to decide their own abortion regimes.

USA - Stephen Miller: President Trump poured out his heart, his soul, his spirit every day to build a better America for everyone to build a safer and more prosperous America. President Biden tonight gave the speech of a dictator, in the style of a dictator, in the visual of a dictator, using the words of a dictator. This was his enemies of the state speech. And like every other radical, Marxist, tyrant, he accused his opponents of being fascist while he engages in oppressive authoritarian behavior.

USA - For years now, since the presidency of Barack Obama, the American left has declared war on the American people — especially those Americans who hold traditional views like the sanctity of the family, the need for secure borders and boundaries, capitalism, meritocracy, Judeo-Christian principles, the goodness of America, the greatness of the American system. Democrats, starting with Obama, have fought to destroy the foundation of America and have declared war for years on their political adversaries.

USA - Joe Biden delivers “one of the most menacing, bitter, angry and divisive speeches in modern US political history” Watch it. Remember it. Understand that Joe Biden is trying to provoke conflict, he wants it, his handlers want it. They launched this campaign about a month ago. It’s calculated. Joe Biden’s speech tonight, claiming to be a presidential address demanding free network coverage, was so far over the top its almost indescribable. It wasn’t just an attack on another candidate, it was a Declaration of War in demonic terms on the roughly half of the electorate who voted for that candidate.

USA - Jean-Pierre fielded questions ahead of Biden’s prime time address about the “attack on our democracy,” after Biden referred earlier to support for Donald Trump as “semi-fascism” and the White House backed his attacks on “MAGA Republicans” as “extremists.” On Wednesday, Jean-Pierre defended the Biden administration’s rhetoric, accusing Republicans of attacking “fundamental rights” such as the right to abortion. A reporter asked Jean-Pierre Thursday if the administration saw the pro-life movement as fascist. She responded that the Republican position on abortion was “not in line with the majority of Americans,” and that the pro-life view was an “extreme agenda” that meant “taking away” rights and freedoms. The rights of an unborn child were not mentioned. She also defined “extremism” as a state of being in disagreement with the political majority.

USA - Whites and Asians need not apply. Bank of America on Wednesday announced a new mortgage home loan program for first-time homebuyers. But only blacks and Hispanics will be eligible. Blacks and Hispanics will be able to apply for a zero down payment, zero closing cost mortgage with Bank of America’s new lending program in select cities. There will be zero mortgage insurance (loans over 80% loan to value typically charge borrowers mortgage insurance fee) and no minimum credit score! What could possibly go wrong? “Home ownership strengthens our communities and can help individuals and families to build wealth over time,” AJ Barkley, head of neighborhood and community lending for Bank of America, said in a release. “Our Community Affordable Loan Solution will help make the dream of sustained home ownership attainable for more Black and Hispanic families, and it is part of our broader commitment to the communities that we serve.” Did Bank of America learn nothing from the 2008 housing market crash? How is this even legal?

USA - The cartoon takes place 13 years after an unmarried pagan woman is impregnated by Satan (voice played by Danny Devito) and follows her and her daughter (literally the spawn of Satan and referred to as the Antichrist) through everyday life. The series features demonic witchcraft, pagan rituals, gratuitous blood, gore, and nudity, and judging by the trailer can easily be considered pornographic by definition. Along with other Disney-associated productions such as Maleficent, Star vs the Forces of Evil, and The Owl House, this new adult cartoon series, Little Demon, is also set in a spiritually demonic realm.

VATICAN - Pope Francis has declared mankind is experiencing the outbreak of World War Three. In his address to Polish-speaking pilgrims at the end of his weekly audience in the Vatican yesterday, the pontiff encouraged prayers 'in a special way' for the people of Ukraine. He said: 'Tomorrow you will remember the anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, which so painfully marked the Polish nation. 'Today we are experiencing the third. May the memory of past experiences spur you to cultivate peace in yourselves, in families, and in social and international life.' In April, Francis said humanity is moving towards WWIII like it is 'unavoidable', and he has frequently warned of imminent global conflict. It comes as the Vatican moved to defend Francis from allegations that he has not come down hard enough on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. In a statement the Vatican said: 'In recent days, public discussions have arisen about the political significance to attribute' to comments by Francis. 'The words of the Pope on this dramatic question should be read as a voice raised in defence of human life and of the values linked to that, and not taken as a political position,' the Vatican said.

USA - Follow The Science?: Scientists have become the high priests of a new and almost universal religion — Scientism. Since Covid, we have heard a constant refrain of, “Follow the science!” Political campaigns argue over who best follows the real science on any given issue. Newscasts and articles push their point of view by claiming a closer affiliation to science than the other side. For more and more people, decisions are not a matter of wisdom or common sense, but about someone else’s definition of “the science.”

SWITZERLAND – The era of fake money is gone: Egon von Greyerz (EvG) is a former Swiss banker and financial expert that says massive money printing and huge amounts of unpayable debt will lead to a monster financial meltdown soon. EvG says, “I did forecast that... the stock market is going to fall at this particular point. The 1,000-point drop on the DOW last Friday came right on cue. Fundamentally, the markets should have crashed a long time ago..." The world is going to see a collapse that it has never seen before in history, and there is absolutely no remedy for that. You will have an implosion of values, I expect 90% plus. Stocks crashed in 1929 to 1932 by 90%. The risk back then and the magnitude of the problems then were nothing compared to what we have today. Remember, today it’s global, and it’s every single country in the world... It’s everywhere, and no one can escape what’s coming.”

USA - We have never seen anything like this before. There are some parts of the globe that are being absolutely devastated by endless drought, and there are other parts of the globe that are being absolutely devastated by relentless flooding. So if you happen to live some place where weather patterns are still behaving normally, you should consider yourself to be incredibly blessed. In all my years, I have never seen extreme conditions in so many areas of the world simultaneously. This is a major red flag, but unfortunately the vast majority of the general population is still not paying attention.

USA - More than two-fifths of Americans believe civil war is at least somewhat likely in the next 10 years, according to a new survey – a figure that increases to more than half among self-identified “strong Republicans”. Most experts believe a full-scale armed conflict, like the American civil war of 1861-65, remains unlikely. But many fear an increase of jagged political division and explicitly political violence, particularly as Republican politicians who support Trump’s lie about electoral fraud run for Congress, governor’s mansions and key state elections posts. This month, Rachel Kleinfeld, a specialist in civil conflict at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, told the Guardian: “Countries with democracies and governments as strong as America’s do not fall into civil war. But if our institutions weaken, the story could be different.”

USA - Recent torrential rain coupled with years of water system issues have resulted in a crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, where the city doesn't have enough water to fight fires, flush toilets or even hand out to residents in need. Jackson's main water treatment facility began failing Monday, according to Governor Tate Reeves. The National Guard was called up to help distribute bottled water as crews work to get the water treatment plant back online, state officials said. But the distribution itself proved unsustainable. Residents of all ages were seen waiting in lines more than a mile long at Hawkins Field Airport for at least two hours Tuesday for just one case of bottled water. The event was supposed to span three hours, but barely ran two as people were eventually turned away when the 700 cases of water ran out.