USA - The unelected international health agency is on the verge of being granted sweeping new powers. Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) are days away from voting on an international pandemic treaty and amendments to the International Health Regulations (2005) which would give the unelected WHO greater control of national emergency healthcare decisions and new powers to push vaccine passports, global surveillance, and “global coordinated actions” that address “misinformation” whenever it declares a “health emergency.” From May 22 to May 28, representatives of the WHO’s 194 member states (which represent 98% of all the countries in the world) will attend a World Health Assembly meeting in Geneva and vote on this treaty and the proposed amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR). If passed, both the treaty and amendments to the IHR will be legally binding under international law.

UK - London Mayor Sadiq Khan has apparently unveiled a new version of the LGBTQ+ pride flag for International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOBIT) this week. Taking to Twitter, the leftist London Mayor wrote on Tuesday: “Today on #IDAHOBIT, I want to make clear that homophobia, biphobia and transphobia have no place in our city and send a message of solidarity to all LGBTQ+ communities around the world. We have to make sure that the progress of the past decades isn’t reversed.” The post from Khan was accompanied with what appears to be an updated version of the “Progress Pride” flag, which was crafted in 2018 by “non-binary” artist Daniel Quasar, who added chevrons featuring the baby blue and pink colours of the transgender flag as well as black and brown for queer people of colour to the traditional rainbow flag. Meanwhile, Britain’s Royal Mint has also joined the action for IDAHOBIT, announcing this week the creation of a new LGBT+ themed 50 pence coin to mark the 50th anniversary of the first Pride celebrations in the UK.

ISRAEL - Tal Gan-Zvi, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s chief of staff, will be stepping down in the coming weeks, Bennett’s office announced on Monday. Gan-Zvi, who has advised Bennett since 2013, submitted his resignation, according to the Prime Minister’s Office. Bennett called Gan-Zvi’s “wisdom, management skills, and fruits of his labor” a valuable asset, and referred to his aide as “one of my pillars.” “I had the privilege over the past year to work with a true public servant for whom Israel’s well-being was and remains always at the front of his mind,” Gan-Zvi, 41, said in a statement thanking Bennett. Gan-Zvi’s request comes less than two weeks after another top Bennett adviser announced she would be leaving. Shimrit Meir, seen as a rival of Gan-Zvi’s within Bennett’s office, announced in a resignation letter that she would leave on June 1. Gan-Zvi’s resignation was seen as a further sign of instability in the government, which is struggling to survive after losing its majority.

USA - Veteran US statesman Henry Kissinger has urged the West to stop trying to inflict a crushing defeat on Russian forces in Ukraine, warning that it would have disastrous consequences for the long term stability of Europe. The former US secretary of state and architect of the Cold War rapprochement between the US and China told a gathering in Davos that it would be fatal for the West to get swept up in the mood of the moment and forget the proper place of Russia in the European balance of power.

EUROPE - Italy and Hungary have urged the EU to call explicitly for a ceasefire in Ukraine and peace talks with Russia, putting themselves at odds with other member states determined to take a hard line with Moscow ahead of a summit next week. A draft concluding statement for the May 30-31 summit, seen by Reuters and dated May 19, describes the European Union as "unwavering in its commitment to help Ukraine exercise its inherent right of self-defence against the Russian aggression." It does not mention peace talks.

SWITZERLAND - Addressing the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, President Isaac Herzog laid out a sweeping vision for a “renewable Middle East” with partnerships between Israel and its Arab neighbors on energy and sustainability. “An outburst of energy is sweeping through the region — energy of change — which will dictate how the next generation grows up,” Herzog told the gathered crowd.

SWITZERLAND - Poor Klaus Schwab. The World Economic Forum CEO’s secretive gathering of globalist elites at Davos, Switzerland appears to be igniting ‘conspiracy theories’ again. What is the mastermind behind “The Great Reset” to do? On Wednesday, Schwab and Pfizer’s multi-millionaire CEO Albert Bourla lamented that the little people don’t much like what the scheming elitists are up to at Davos.

USA - Gunfire at US schools has reached a record high, with a gun being discharged on school property almost every day this year, a researcher has claimed. ...A day earlier, three teenagers were shot as they left their high school in Philadelphia. Last week, there were three shootings at high school graduations in Michigan, Louisiana and Tennessee. There have been 137 shooting incidents at schools so far this year - almost one a day - and 249 last year, according to David Riedman, lead researcher at the K-12 School Shooting Database at the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security. It tracks every incident in which a gun is brandished or fired or a bullet hits school property. According to the reports, the gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers in a rural Texas elementary school on Tuesday entered the building despite being confronted by an armed school security officer, then wounded two responding police officers and engaged in a standoff inside the school for over an hour.

USA - “Elizabeth Bartholet, the director of Harvard Law’s Child Advocacy Program, described the ‘homeschooling phenomenon’ as a ‘threat’ to society, claiming that conservative parents ‘homeschool because they want to isolate their children from ideas and values central to our democracy’, ‘promote racial segregation and female subservience’, and ‘question science’.”

SWEDEN - World leaders are failing to prepare for a new era of complex and often unpredictable risks to peace as profound environmental and security crises converge and intensify, according to a major report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The report, Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk, offers policymakers principles and recommendations for navigating this volatile future. It will be launched today in a special session before the opening of the ninth Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development.

UK - Militant rail union leaders are threatening to cripple Britain with strikes that could begin within weeks by mid-June unless train drivers are handed 11 per cent pay rises on their average £59,000-a-year salaries. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union at Network Rail and 13 train operators have backed launching a huge campaign of industrial action, and the organisation's leaders will now decide when to call strikes. The rise proposed by the union is significantly above the 3.2 per cent average given to workers in the private sector.

SWITZERLAND - The reason the globalist elites love climate change hysteria is because it gives them a license to bring forth the most intrusive new technologies all in the name of “saving the planet.” For five decades they’ve told us we’re just ten years away from extinction, and for some reason many still believe them. They play on this ignorance to get people to willingly forgo freedom, privacy, and common sense for the sake of perceived security. This is why Alibaba Group President J Michael Evans is able to boast about new tracking technology openly at the World Economic Forum’s Davos summit. The globalist elites no longer concern themselves with hiding in the shadows. They announce their intentions to the public and dare us to tell them they’re wrong.

SWITZERLAND - This morning, on one of the WEF’s live-streamed panels, Alibaba Holdings President J Michael Evans claimed that the company is working on an app that could track an individual user's carbon footprint. Now, to clarify, Evans was only talking about Alibaba’s platform… but that’s a big platform. The Chinese company is the second-largest e-commerce company in the world after Amazon, with revenues in excess of 715 billion Yuan in 2021 (that’s over 110 billion USD).

USA - Mastercard recently launched a program for retailers to offer biometric payment methods, like facial recognition and fingerprint scanning. At the checkout, users will be forced to authenticate their payment by showing their face or the palm of their hand instead of being allowed to pay by card or with cash. The program has already gone live in five St Marche grocery stores in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with more trials also planned for Asia and the Middle East. Mastercard says it plans to roll it out globally later this year.

SWITZERLAND - Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), on Monday greeted members of the global elites gathered in Davos, Switzerland, with the salute: “the future is built by us… by a powerful community… as you here in this room.” “History at a Turning Point: Government and Business Strategies” is the theme for the 2022 edition of the 51-year-old NGO lobbying organization founded by the German engineer and economist. On the evidence delivered on day one at the famous Swiss ski resort, Schwab very much sees his organization at the forefront of shaping the world of tomorrow. Unfortunately outsiders have not been consulted or invited to join the 2,500 people flown in from all around the world to be present.