USA - In another jaw-dropping dereliction of duty by our elected representatives, the US House of Representatives voted to approve a massive, pork-stuffed, $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package on Wednesday despite not having any time at all to review its nearly 3,000 pages of content. The bill includes $13.6 billion in aid for Ukraine and European allies and will fund the federal government through to September 30 if it is passed through the Senate later this week. On Tuesday night, the Democrat-controlled House Rules Committee held a meeting in the dead of night at 1:30 am to finalize the $1.5 trillion spending package. After meeting for an hour, they released the final text of the bill just before 3:00 am, which gave lawmakers less than 12 hours to scramble and read its contents before the vote, which was set for 1:30 pm EST. Most lawmakers, if not all of them, weren’t awake when the bill was released, so they did not receive it until the morning, leaving them with just a few hours before having to submit a decision.

SWITZERLAND - Klaus Schwab’s globalist cabal, the World Economic Forum (WEF), announced that it has severed “all relations” with the Russian government and President Vladimir Putin due to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine. “We are not engaging with any sanctioned individual and have frozen all relations with Russian entities,” spokesperson Amanda Russo told Politico this week. Putin was also completely purged from the WEF website earlier this week before Russo’s announcement.

USA - A truck diver in Tennessee was outraged while filling his semi-truck as gasoline prices have soared to record highs. In a viral video, a truck driver was seen complaining over the soaring gas prices to fill a semi-truck. He forewarned what will happen in the next coming months. “You... want a reality check? I’m gonna give you a reality check. $1,052 to fill a semi-truck in Tennessee. It is currently right now, $5.15 a gallon,” the man clarified. “What ... are you going to do next month with your gallon of milk cost $11? Because you hear that [pointing to the truck], that’s the only way to get milk,” he explained. The average gas price soared to $4.318 overnight for a gallon of regular gas, according to AAA.

USA - A third world war will “destroy our civilization” unless Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are “removed from power” warns billionaire Democrat megadonor George Soros. “After receiving a green light from Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war in Ukraine in an effort to reclaim the old Russian empire,” Soros wrote in an op-ed published by Project Syndicate on Friday. “But both leaders appear to have misjudged the situation, raising the prospect of a global catastrophe – unless they are removed from power,” he wrote. Putin has “gone literally mad,” cautioned the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Foundations. According to an Associated Press-NORC poll, just 26 percent of Americans want the US to have a “major role” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, while 72 percent said the US should have a “minor role” or “no role” at all. The US and its allies ought to have as much involvement in the conflict as possible, Soros contends.

USA - In order to prevent another pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) wants to create an international “pandemic treaty” that would restrict and legally bind its 194 member nations to medical martial law. The United States would need to give up its national sovereignty under the plan, including all civil and health rights. Every other country that is part of the United Nations would be expected to do the same (if they have not already). Back in December, the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s 194-member health policy forum, agreed to initiate the process of drafting a pandemic treaty based on an already existing international legal instrument called the International Health Regulations (2005), also known as the IHR. The stated purpose of the IHR is to: “Prevent, protect against, control and provide a public health response to the international spread of disease in ways that are commensurate with and restricted to public health risks, and which avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade.”

USA - Food company Frito-Lay has cut down the number of chips in each bag of Doritos as record inflation has raised production expenses. A bag of Doritos has five fewer chips than it used to, the company told Quartz. “Inflation is hitting everyone… We took just a little bit out of the bag so we can give you the same price and you can keep enjoying your chips,” a Frito-Lay representative said. Other ubiquitous consumer products have fallen victim to “shrinkflation,” Quartz reported. Bounty has cut three sheets from each roll of paper towels, and a box of Wheat Thins now has 28 fewer crackers. Under the Biden administration, inflation has skyrocketed. Inflation reached a 40-year high last month, even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caused energy prices to surge. The cost of food accounts for much of the inflation, with grocery prices up 8.6 percent from last year.

USA - Does it seem as though you are not getting the same bang for your buck at the grocery store?. Many consumers describe that as shrinkflation: when product sizes shrink, but prices stay the same. Did you know there is such a profession as a consumer rights lawyer? Consumer rights lawyer Edgar Dworsky says, “Downsizing comes in waves, and it tends to happen during times of increased inflation." Dworsky tracks downsized products on consumerworld.org and explained that "bottom lines are being pinched and there are three basic options: raise the price directly, take a little bit out of the product, or reformulate the product with cheaper ingredients.” Shrinkflation is now a hashtag on Twitter.

UK - Celebrating 'divine and demonic' women! British Museum's first exhibition on female spiritual beings will explore primordial she-demon Lilith who was 'consort of Satan' and Circe who turned men into pigs. From powerful deities to primordial she-demons, a new exhibition exploring how femininity has been perceived across the globe throughout history will be unveiled later this year. Feminine power: the divine to the demonic is the British Museum's first ever exhibit on female spiritual beings and will open in May.

USA - Has nuclear war been on your mind lately? If so, you are definitely not alone. According to Google, searches for “nuclear war” spiked to the highest level in the entire history of their search engine after the Russians invaded Ukraine. Many believe that this invasion marked the beginning of World War 3… Until this happened, nuclear war wasn’t something that most people in the western world thought much about, but now everything has changed. All of a sudden millions upon millions of people are deeply alarmed about the possibility of a nuclear conflict. And the other day I was quite stunned to learn that one research company in Canada is actually projecting that there is a “10% chance of a civilization-ending global nuclear war over the next 12 months”…

EUROPE - For some European countries watching Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine, there are fears that they could be next. Western officials say the most vulnerable could be those who aren’t members of NATO or the European Union, and thus alone and unprotected — including Ukraine’s neighbor Moldova and Russia’s neighbor Georgia, both of them formerly part of the Soviet Union — along with the Balkan states of Bosnia and Kosovo. But analysts warn that even NATO members could be at risk, such as Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on Russia’s doorstep, as well as Montenegro, either from Moscow’s direct military intervention or attempts at political destabilization.

RUSSIA - Natan Sharansky, the world's leading anti-Soviet, dissident Zionist, and pro-democracy voice, was born in Donetsk in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. In an interview, Sharansky said: Putin "has said over many years that the biggest tragedy of the 20th century was the destruction of the Soviet Union. So his mission is to bring back that unique Russian superpower." "Russia today is something like 3% of the world economy and NATO represents something closer to 50%. And here it is very important to understand Putin's psychology. From my time among criminals in prison, I know very well that the one who's the ringleader in the cell is not the one who is physically strongest, but the one who is ready to use his knife. Everybody has a knife, but not everybody is prepared to use it. Putin believes that he is willing to use his knife and the West isn't, that the West can only talk, even if it is physically stronger."

RUSSIA - The Western powers’ attempts to isolate Russia worldwide because of its attack on Ukraine, have proven unsuccessful. Last week, at the UN General Assembly, Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on all nations of the world, to “now take sides,” regarding Russia’s war of aggression. Although the General Assembly has condemned the war by a clear majority, most of those countries – unlike the west and its closest allies – are still continuing their cooperation with Russia.

EUROPE - The European Union has been sent a huge warning by former European Parliament Brexit Coordinator Guy Verhofstadt. 'We need stronger Europe!' EU sent huge warning by Verhofstadt to 'defend our interests'. The former Belgian Prime Minister was speaking after attending the Conference on the Future of Europe in Strasbourg where Ukrainian citizens spoke about the recent Russian invasion. “We need a stronger, more sovereign, more united Europe to defend our values and interests.”

IRAN - The Iran nuclear deal may become collateral damage in the Ukraine war. In a phone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reiterated that Russia wants the revival of the nuclear deal to be accompanied by US guarantees that sanctions imposed by the West in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine won't apply to Russian trade or investment with Iran. The demand has rocked the negotiations underway in Vienna. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicated Sunday that the US would not be prepared to bargain over the sanctions imposed on Russia for the sake of the nuclear deal.

GERMANY - They are in worse shape than the 2008/9 crash. Cracks beginning to show? I do believe they are doing almost all they can to prop this all up as 2023 approaches and 2024 shortly thereafter, as it seems like the market is weaponized should things not go their way, yet it has to crash anyway. Why prolong the inevitable to make things worse? Deutsche Bank closed at $16.50 on the New York Stock Exchange on February 10 of this year. It closed at $10.23 yesterday – a decline of 38 percent in a month’s time. That’s a big problem because Deutsche Bank is heavily interconnected to Wall Street banks via derivatives. According to Deutsche Bank’s most recent annual report, as of December 31, 2020, it held $35.4 trillion in notional derivatives. In June 2016, The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a report with a finding that Deutsche Bank posed the greatest threat to global financial stability than any other bank because of its interconnections to Wall Street mega banks and large banks in Europe. The largest bank in the United States, JPMorgan Chase, was shown as one of the banks with the largest amount of exposure.