SWITZERLAND - Anyone who opposes the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) “Great Reset” program will be sent to Chinese-style “re-education camps,” according to a pledge by the WEF. Those who oppose Klaus Schwab’s “Great Reset” should be imprisoned in communist China-style “re-education camps” until they no longer embrace freedom, nationalism, and the right to bear arms, according to Wang Guan, a WEF young global leader. Wang is currently a chief political journalist for a Chinese state-run media outlet in the United States that broadcasts Chinese propaganda. In the National Pulse, Natalie Winters said, “The WEF has grown known for globalist involvement around the world, including but not limited to pushing for the ‘Great Reset’ amidst COVID-19.” “At its core, the group aspires to abolish property ownership, encapsulating this goal in the contentious phrase ‘you will own nothing and be happy.'”

SWITZERLAND - According to Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the goal of The Fourth Industrial Revolution is to change what it means to be human by merging man and machine. Humans are now “hackable,” in that technology now exists by which a company or government can know you better than you know yourself, and that can be very dangerous if misused. Professor Yuval Noah Harari predicts that algorithms will increasingly be used to make decisions that have historically been made by humans, either yourself or someone else, including whether or not you’ll be hired for a particular job, whether you’ll be granted a loan, what scholastic curriculum you will follow and even who you will marry. If you believe that your thoughts and behavior are and always will remain under your own control, think again. We already have the technology to directly alter thoughts, emotions and behavior. In short, while the term “transhumanism” is not being used, that’s exactly where the global cabal intends to take us, willing or not.

USA - It’s already bad for American farmers. They’re getting hit by higher costs of fertilizer, gas and everything else. As a result, food prices will go up. Soon, it will be bad for all Americans. Maybe, sooner than we think. Farmer Ben Neal talked to Laura Ingraham about how he’s “getting hit on every front on every expense possible”

USA - Recently, we looked at a new idea governments are looking at — programmable digital currency. It’s all digital, issued by government, constantly trackable, and can’t be spent on items not approved by government (or only with penalties). The Federal Reserve Board (the United States’ central bank) explains, bureaucratically, potential benefits of the ‘digital cash’ model using programmable UTXOs are the ability to specify spending constraints on any discrete amount of value and a greater facility to trace the provenance of any particular ‘virtual banknote.’

GERMANY - Germany plans to buy up to 35 US-made F-35 fighter jets and 15 Eurofighter jets, a parliamentary source said Monday, as part of a major push to modernize the armed forces in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The F-35 jets made by Lockheed Martin would help replace Germany’s decades-old Tornado fleet, according to media reports confirmed by the source. Tornados are the only jets capable of carrying US nuclear bombs stationed in Germany that are a key part of NATO deterrence. Lockheed’s F-35 stealth jets are considered the most modern combat aircraft in the world, and their unique shape and coating make them harder to detect by enemy radar. The additional Eurofighter jets Germany plans to purchase, made by a consortium that includes Airbus, would reportedly be used for other operations, including electronic warfare and escort missions.

EUROPE - Guy Verhofstadt has called for a "united EU military" as the bloc looks to confront the growing threat of Vladimir Putin's Russia. MEP Guy Verhofstadt has voiced support for the European Union to form a "united EU military" in the face of Russian aggression in Ukraine. Mr Verhofstadt told LBC that the crisis in Ukraine has highlighted a "lack of unity" between member states on military matters and the MEP called for the creation of a European Defence Union. Mr Verhofstadt told LBC: "The war in Ukraine shows very well, the weakness of Europe and the European Union and the lack of unity certainly in the military. Because we have not to forget that Europe is more or less spending 240 billion euro a year on military, the Russians 60 billion euro a year on the military. So we are spending four times more but that's not what you see in reality.

RUSSIA - Russia issued sanctions today against top current and former US government officials, plus Hunter Biden. The list of people sanctioned by Russia include Anthony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Mark Milley, Jake Sullivan, and Jen Psaki. Hillary Clinton even made the list. It’s conspicuous that it’s only Democrats on the list. Is Russia trying to imply that they support Republicans?

RUSSIA - Russia has asked its ally China for military assistance in its invasion of Ukraine according to US officials. How big are Russia and China’s militaries? According to World Population Review, China has an astounding four million military personnel. Russia is not far behind, with about 3.5 million military members in total. In Beijing last month, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping proclaimed their partnership as having “no limits”, in another sign that the two were tightening their relationship.

UKRAINE - Russia and Ukraine have now entered into their fourth round of negotiations to bring an end to the ongoing war. But what exactly do Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky both want? Ukraine has said it is willing to negotiate, but not to surrender or accept any ultimatums. Ukrainian negotiator and presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said: "Russia is already beginning to talk constructively. I think that we will achieve some results literally in a matter of days." RIA news agency quoted a Russian delegate, Leonid Slutsky, as saying recent talks had made “substantial progress”.

RUSSIA - Vladimir Putin is actively preparing to face a coup following the humiliation that Russia has suffered in Ukraine, according to an investigative journalist with key sources inside the Russian secret services. Mr Soldatov revealed earlier this week that President Putin had placed the head of the FSB's foreign service under house arrest as Kremlin blame-game began. It appeared that President Putin blamed the FSB, the post-Soviet successor to the KGB, for giving him false projections of how the war in Ukraine would go. The FSB security service had apparently told the Russian President that Ukraine was weak and would give up easily if invaded. The investigative journalist said that the military officials in Ukraine were too afraid to tell President Putin the truth. He continued: "He believes he is the most informed politician in the world. So it is difficult to tell him something he doesn't want to hear.

USA - The media is refusing to report that America is heading for major food shortages as Russia's invasion of Ukraine impacts global supply chains, an expert is warning. The world is rapidly moving toward a food crisis that could affect millions of people. Major shortages are already being reported by farmers and spillover of the crisis could soon spark agricultural mayhem in the United States. Russia and Ukraine are known as the "breadbasket of the world" for their farming exports. Both countries are responsible for a quarter of the international wheat trade, about a fifth of corn, and 12% of all calories traded globally. The curtailment of agricultural exports from Russia and Ukraine will have significant knock-on effects on global food supplies. Another major problem is access to fertilizers, as Russia has banned exports of the nutrients, according to ZeroHedge. It's not whether or not there will be a food crisis, however, it's how big that crisis will be.

USA - Since Joe Biden entered the White House, the deterioration of Chinese relations with the United States has accelerated. Meanwhile, Chinese relations with Russia have tightened, and that should deeply alarm all of us. Because now that war has started, many are deeply concerned that the US could eventually find itself in a direct conflict with a Russian-Chinese alliance. Jake Sullivan and other foreign policy officials in the Biden administration desperately want China to denounce the Russian invasion of Ukraine and to participate in economic sanctions against Russia. But neither of those things is going to happen, and this is making Biden’s foreign security minions very angry.

MIDDLE EAST - The world seems to have got a lot more dangerous since Joe Biden took office last January. It wasn’t long after his inauguration that Russian President Vladimir Putin started massing troops on Ukraine’s border. The Kremlin believes that its American opponent is old and weak, and began testing him as soon as he took office. Now war has come to the European continent once again. Last night it was the turn of the Iranians to test Washington. According to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) at around 1:30 am, 12 missiles struck near a new US consulate under construction in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. ‘The attacks resulted in no casualties, and the missiles were launched from outside of Kurdistan and Iraq,’ the KRG’s anti-terror units reported.

USA - As information professionals, Nicole stressed that we need to give people tools and strategies to use in order to keep an open mind, and this applies to us as well, as librarians and educators. She stressed that we need to move away from using the phrase "fake news" because it's politicized, polarizing, and a way to really shut down a conversation. She suggests we start using the terms misinformation and disinformation rather than fake news. "Fake news" is inadequate to capture the complex problem of disinformation. It is also misleading because it has been appropriated by people who use the term to dismiss coverage that they find disagreeable.

USA - As President Joe Biden cozies up to nations such as Venezuela in his hunt to bring down sky-high gasoline prices, Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy has a different partnership in mind — one with Americans. “President Biden is searching for oil anywhere on the planet except at home,” Dunleavy told Fox News on Wednesday. During remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month in Orlando, the Republican governor said the Trump era was about “opportunity and hope.” Biden’s time is filled with “cancellation and trepidation,” he said. Dunleavy followed those remarks with a statement on his website Thursday outlining how Alaska, if let off the Biden leash, could address America’s energy woes. “Alaska is awash in energy, but not able to capitalize on it,” Dunleavy wrote. “Mr President, we know you can help with this.”