EUROPE - The role of NATO is likewise seen as more important than it was, and in many nations people think they have been underinvesting in their armed forces. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused many people across Europe to reassess their views on defence policy, according to data from a recent YouGov poll conducted with the European University Institute for the 2022 State of the Union conference in Florence.

EUROPE - The expansionist European Union project has the Western Balkans in its sights according to leftist German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has declared that the region “belongs” to the bloc. Following separate meetings with the leaders of Serbia and Kosovo on Wednesday in Berlin, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Germany would back the accession of both Serbia and Kosovo into the European Union, should they take the reforms needed to fall in line with EU requirements. In a press conference with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, Scholz declared “The Western Balkans belong in Europe.” Scholz, who is at the forefront of the push to establish an EU superstate, said according to Deutsche Welle that he will be travelling to the Western Balkans later this year to also hold talks with the leaders of Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia. “In the future all its countries must belong to the European Union,” Scholz said of the Western Balkans.

USA - Nancy Pelosi demands US go to full war with Russia, even if it leads to Nuclear War: ‘We should not be deterred by the threats from Russia’. Nancy Pelosi has called for the “strongest possible” military retaliation to Russia’s attack on Ukraine following meetings with officials in Warsaw and Kiev. She added that the West should not be deterred by the threat of retaliation from Moscow. After meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Monday, Pelosi said Washington and its allies must escalate their efforts against Moscow, demanding for the “strongest possible military response” and “the strongest sanctions” in order to “make the case that this is not tolerable.” “We shouldn’t do anything less because of a threat from Russia,” she concluded.

ISRAEL - Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday that Israel will make its own decisions concerning Jerusalem and the Temple Mount without any foreign interference, in an apparent reference to statements by Ra’am party leader Mansour Abbas. “All decisions regarding the Temple Mount and Jerusalem will be made by the Israeli government, which holds sovereignty over the city, without any foreign considerations,” Bennett said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. “We certainly reject any foreign interference in the decisions of the Israeli government,” Bennett said. “Of course, the State of Israel will continue to maintain a respectful attitude toward members of all religions in Jerusalem,” Bennett said. “A united Jerusalem is the capital of only one state – the State of Israel.”

USA - Against the backdrop of the water crisis in the Colorado River Basin, where the country's largest reservoirs are plunging at an alarming rate, California's two largest reservoirs — Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville — are facing a similar struggle. Years of low rainfall and snowpack and more intense heat waves have fed directly to the state's multiyear, unrelenting drought conditions, rapidly draining statewide reservoirs. And according to this week's report from the US Drought Monitor, the two major reservoirs are at "critically low levels" at the point of the year when they should be the highest. "We anticipate that in the Sacramento Valley alone, over 350,000 acres of farmland will be fallowed," Mary Lee Knecht, public affairs officer for the Bureau's California-Great Basin Region, told CNN. For perspective, it's an area larger than Los Angeles. "Cities and towns that receive [Central Valley Project] water supply, including Silicon Valley communities, have been reduced to health and safety needs only."

USA - “Fertilizer shortages are real now.” Uttered by USAID’s Samantha Power in a May 1 ABC interview with former Democratic advisor George Stephanopoulos, the words briefly drowned out the din of the news cycle. They were not unexpected to some. Power, who served as UN ambassador under Obama, mentioned fertilizer shortages after weeks of hints from the Biden administration. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki repeatedly alluded to challenges obtaining fertilizer in recent press briefings. So did President Joe Biden himself in a joint statement with EU President Ursula von der Leyen.

USA - Language from (Samantha) Power Echoes Green Activists, EU, WEF. In the case of increasing costs for oil, natural gas, and coal, some politicians and green activists have argued that those fast-rising prices mark an opportunity to accelerate a move from hydrocarbons to wind, solar, and electrification. “Big Oil is price gouging American drivers. These liars do nothing to make the United States energy independent or stabilize gas prices. It’s time we break up with Big Oil and ignite a clean energy revolution,” Senator Ed Markey (Democrat for Massachusetts) said on Twitter in March.

UNITED NATIONS - The UN-Forum Partnership was signed in a meeting held at United Nations headquarters between UN Secretary-General António Guterres and World Economic Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab to accelerate the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The partnership identifies six areas of focus – financing the 2030 Agenda, climate change, health, digital cooperation, gender equality and empowerment of women, education and skills – to strengthen and broaden their combined impact by building on existing and new collaborations. The UN-Forum Partnership was signed in a meeting held at United Nations headquarters between UN Secretary-General António Guterres and World Economic Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab. The leadership across the United Nations will engage in and utilize the different platforms provided by the World Economic Forum to advance impact in the above areas. Both institutions will annually review the partnership to further streamline collaboration, take stock of results and identify additional areas to jointly invest efforts in.

SWITZERLAND - Who are the globalist members of the trade organization known as The World Economic Forum (WEF) and their servants, why should you care, and what can you do about it? First, “who are they?” The current 100 WEF full members (“Strategic Partners”) are drawn from the largest corporations in the world, together with their owners and managers (referred to as “Davos Man”). The list of corporations, owners and managers who control the WEF is not disclosed and membership can only be inferred indirectly. However, the WEF members do not act alone, but have developed various groups of globally distributed trainees who generally act in accordance with the detailed policies and positions developed and distributed by WEF leadership.

USA - May 4, 2001 marks the day when the US was voted off the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The decision should have provided the superpower with a much-needed wakeup call. Instead, it just became more reckless on the global stage. With the benefit of hindsight, there was no loss of irony about Washington losing its seat on the body for the first time since the panel’s founding in 1947. That’s because, as far as America’s track record on human rights was concerned, the ‘best’ was yet to come.

USA - A bird flu virus that’s sweeping across the US is rapidly becoming the country’s worst outbreak, having already killed over 37 million chickens and turkeys, with more deaths expected through next month as farmers perform mass culls. Under guidance of the federal government, farms must destroy entire commercial flocks if just one bird tests positive for the virus, to stop the spread. That’s leading to distressing scenes across rural America. In Iowa, millions of animals in vast barns are suffocated in high temperatures or with poisonous foam. In Wisconsin, lines of dump trucks have taken days to collect masses of bird carcasses and pile them in unused fields. Neighbors live with the stench of the decaying birds. The supply deficits triggered by the flu also come as world food prices reach new highs. From the war in Ukraine to adverse weather for crops, it’s all throwing supply chains into turmoil and compounding the crisis that’s pushed millions of people into hunger since the start of the pandemic.

USA - While the HUGE story out Tuesday morning that blew up the internet and set Democrats hair on fire reported the US Supreme Court may have finally decided to 'strike down' Roe v Wade, as ANP reader/commenter 'Fatty Wink' pointed out in an excellent, thought-provoking comment on Susan Duclos' May 2nd ANP story titled "Warnings Become More Dire As 'Bidenflation' Forces Massive Changes In Eating Habits As Food Shortages Become More Pronounced From Coast To Coast", "let's call the leak of the supreme court opinion on Roe v Wade what it is, a calculated distraction from everything in this article."

ITALY - "Europe will be forged in crises” wrote Jean Monnet, one of the founding fathers of the European Union, in 1976, “and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises.” Less than fifty years later, the first part of Monnet’s prophecy has certainly been fulfilled. Excessive fiscal austerity and the long stagnation of the 2010s, the tragic spectacle of the refugee crisis, and the insurgencies of far-right populist parties across Europe seemed more than enough to test the bloc’s crisis management skills and political unity throughout the last decade. Then came COVID-19, which is still tormenting the public health systems of Europe’s member states, and Vladimir Putin’s imperialist war, which has provided the bloc with yet another stress test. With no change of pace on the part of Letta’s Democrats, nor any contenders able to represent left-wing positions, the coming elections of March 2023 will either see the Democrats lead yet another centrist government with right-wing allies or the long-postponed victory of the far right. Either way, the crisis is here to stay.

USA - Dr Peter Pry (Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security) warns that the consequences – of not being prepared for this event – are much more severe than one may think: “within a year of an EMP event at least 2 thirds of the US population will perish from starvation, disease and social collapse”. Former CIA double agent (Reza Kahlili) who spent time in the Iranian Army confirmed that the Iranians have conducted missile tests of ships in the Caspian Sea that are consistent with an EMP attack: “They are going to get to the Gulf of Mexico with ballistic missiles and they can launch one at a moment’s notice and they wouldn’t care about the repercussions”. Mostly because they can sink the vessel leaving no traces and because the US won’t be able to retaliate!

VATICAN - In his latest Fratelli Tutti (Brothers All) encyclical letter, Pope Francis issues a plea for the nations of the world to hand their reins of power over to the United Nations, which Francis says will lead us all into the New World Order. Since globalism has already succeeded at weakening the power of individual nation states through the trans-nationalization of their respective economic and financial sectors, the time is ripe to cement into place a system of global governance that can never be undone, Francis contends.