USA - US President Joe Biden has proposed the largest-ever military budget, asking Congress for $813.3 billion in the coming year – $31 billion more than the budget approved for 2022. Lawmakers are likely to add even more funding, as representatives from both parties have complained it doesn’t go far enough because of inflation.

GERMANY - Gerhard Schröder, who was German chancellor from 1998 to 2005, has had a close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin for more than two decades. Now the news portal Politico and the German mass-circulation Bild newspaper report he traveled to Moscow and met with the Russian president on Thursday evening. The trip was not coordinated with the German government, which is headed by Schröder's party, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD). SPD co-leader Lars Klingbeil said he had received no information on such a trip, but said that in his view any attempt to stop the war was good. It was only a few days ago that Soyeon Schröder-Kim, Schröder's wife, wrote on Instagram, "You can be sure that whatever my husband can do to help end the war, he will do." Whether Schröder can really influence Putin is difficult to assess. However, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, has suggested the former chancellor as a mediator. "He is one of the few here in Germany who may still have a direct line to Mr Putin. There is no one who has such a thing in Germany and the other European countries," Melnyk told the mass-circulation Bild newspaper.

NORTH KOREA - North Korea has a new ballistic missile system, and more importantly, they’ve got a new propaganda video touting it. In what may be the greatest work of cinematography I’ve ever seen, North Korean dictator Kim Jung Un makes an appearance with several of his generals, playing out what looks like a scene from a 1980s action movie. The unintentional hilariousness is off the charts. Truly, this is incredible stuff.

USA - As reported by The Defender, March 14, 2022, the CDC had removed 72,277 “COVID deaths” from the tally, including 24% of those attributed to children under 18. They claim a “coding logic error,” a faulty algorithm, had “accidentally” counted deaths that weren’t related to COVID. As reported by Udumbara: “Some of the pediatric deaths attributed to COVID-19, according to a search of the CDC’s Wonder system, include deaths where drowning or drug use was listed as the primary cause of death.”

GERMANY - Germany is considering purchasing a missile defence system to shield against a potential attack from Russia, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said late on Sunday. "This is certainly one of the issues we are discussing, and for good reason," he told public broadcaster ARD when asked whether Germany might buy a defence system such as Israel's Iron Dome. He did not specify what type of system Berlin was considering. When asked whether Germany aimed to procure a missile defence system with a longer range than its existing Patriot batteries, Scholz said: "We need to be aware that we have a neighbour who is prepared to use violence to enforce their interests."

JAMAICA - Almost 400 years after the British conquered Spanish-occupied Jamaica, the Caribbean island has indicated it plans to follow Barbados in removing the Queen as head of state and becoming a republic. The news has been announced during Prince William’s royal Caribbean tour, where they were told by Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness, of the Jamaica Labour Party, that due to “unresolved issues” Jamaica will be looking to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of their state, and be “moving on” to fulfil their “true ambitions and destiny as an independent, developed, prosperous country”.

USA - “You will own nothing, and you will be happy.” The mantra of the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution for the globalist elites at the World Economic Forum has always been a challenging concept for most Americans to fully grasp. Our nation was built on the precepts of freedom, capitalism, and property ownership, so when the WEF’s mantra creeps into a conversation it is often met by scowls and consternation. Apple is rumored to be making a move towards hardware rental.

UNITED NATIONS - Israel was outraged on Thursday when the United Nations demanded it remove from a planned exhibition all references to Jerusalem as the sacred capital of the Jewish nation. Speaker of the Knesset Mickey Levy is scheduled to meet next week with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at the world body’s headquarters in New York. Israel requested that the visit be accompanied by a small exhibit celebrating the history of the Knesset. The exhibit was previously displayed at Ben Gurion Airport. The UN apparently agreed to the request, but sent a list of instructions telling Israel to remove various references to Jerusalem as the united, undisputed and eternal capital of the Jewish state.

Bottom line: The Palestinians speak openly and freely at the UN about the “rich culture” of a nation that has never existed in the annals of history – a work of pure fiction – while the Jews are forbidden to present facts well-documented in many forms, not least of which in the pages of the most widely circulated book on earth – the Bible!

USA - President Joe Biden's call for Vladimir Putin to be removed from power is setting off alarm bells among US foreign policy experts, who fear that it could escalate tensions even if the Kremlin scales back its war aims in Ukraine. 'For God's sake this man cannot remain in power,' Biden said in a shocking apparent call for regime change in Moscow at the end of a impassioned speech from Poland on Saturday. The unscripted remark, which the White House scrambled to walk back as the Kremlin expressed fury, came at the end of an otherwise resolute and fiery speech rallying the free world to unite in opposition to autocracy and support of Ukraine.

EUROPE - EU defense and foreign ministers on Monday adopted a new security strategy, known as "Strategic Compass." As part of the new strategy, the European Union will create a force of as many as 5,000 troops, an overhaul of the EU battlegroups that have existed only on paper since 2007. The joint response forces are to be operational by 2025. German Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht told reporters ahead of the meeting that "Germany can provide the military core." The move gives the European Union the "necessary toolbox" to become a "real geopolitical defense and security player together with NATO," Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics said on Twitter. The plan for an overhaul of the European Union's security strategy came in the wake of the chaotic withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan following the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on August 14 of last year.

USA - Please read this article very carefully, because it contains very important information that is going to affect you and your family. Joe Biden just told a press conference in Brussels that worldwide food shortages are “going to be real”… President Joe Biden said that the world will experience food shortages as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and production increases were a subject of discussions at a Group of Seven meeting on Thursday. “It’s going to be real,” Biden said at a news conference in Brussels. “The price of the sanctions is not just imposed upon Russia. It’s imposed upon an awful lot of countries as well, including European countries and our country as well.”

SWITZERLAND - When Klaus Schwab, the leader of the World Economic Forum and The Great Reset, talks about fusing the physical, digital, and biological world, he is also talking about microchipping everyone. First, microchips will be implanted in our clothes and eventually, our brains or skin. Certainly, in the next ten years, everyone will be implanted with chips, he says. It will enable direct communication between our brain and the digital world. Once chipped, we don’t need to do a thing to reach the digital world. It will be natural, notes the host. Schwab says, “Yes, you talk and you say, ‘I want to talk and be connected with anyone now.'” First, you will have personalized bots with AI, according to Schwab. The robot will not only be your “assistant for manual work,” but “it can be an intellectual partner for you.” Okay, so I’m supposed to put an iPhone chip in my brain and be tied to the machines 24/7 and I can have robots for friends instead of humans. Great idea Schwab. Get lost. Schwab wants to change what it means to be human.

USA - Approximately 150 American B-61 nuclear gravity bombs are stationed in five countries in Europe: Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Turkey. While the governments of these countries have never officially declared the presence of these weapons, individuals such as the former Italian President and former Dutch prime minister have confirmed this to be the case. The nuclear sharing arrangement is part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) defence policy. In peace time, the nuclear weapons stored in non-nuclear countries are guarded by US forces, with a dual code system activated in a time of war. Both host country and the US would then need to approve the use of the weapons, which would be launched on the former’s airplanes. When these bombs were initially deployed, the original targets were eastern European states. But as the Cold War ended, and these states became part of the European Union and in some cases NATO itself, the practice has become provocative, destabilising and dangerous.

USA - Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will reshape the world economy and further drive up inflation by prompting companies to pull back from their global supply chains, BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink has warned. “The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalisation we have experienced over the last three decades,” Fink wrote in his annual letter to shareholders of BlackRock, which oversees $10 trillion as the world’s largest asset manager. While the immediate result had been Russia’s total isolation from capital markets, Fink predicted “companies and governments will also be looking more broadly at their dependencies on other nations. This may lead companies to onshore or nearshore more of their operations, resulting in a faster pull back from some countries.” “A large-scale reorientation of supply chains will inherently be inflationary,” Fink wrote…

USA - There is a strong possibility that the food supply in central and southern California will take a major hit from a potential grocery workers strike. Reports indicate that some 47,000 workers at hundreds of Ralphs (Kroger), Albertsons, Vons, and Pavilions stores throughout the bottom half of California will walk off the job after the United Food and Commercial Workers union failed to reach an agreement before the latest three-year contracts expired on March 6. Another perfect storm to strike the food economy, a potential strike would leave thousands of grocery stores and supermarkets without clerks, butchers, pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. The results of a vote on the strike are expected to be released on March 27. Employees had asked for a $5-an-hour wage increase, among other proposals, only to receive an offer of a 60-cent wage increase, which the union called “shockingly low” and well below what workers need to cover cost of living in California.