SPAIN - Transhumanism is a futuristic religion that exalts technology as the highest power. The movement’s goal is to merge man with machine. Their wildest prophecies seem ridiculous at first, until you consider the dizzying advances in bionics, robotics, neuroprosthetics, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and genetic engineering. Prominent figures gathered at the TransVision 2021 conference in Madrid over the weekend. Listening to the proceedings online, I heard a broad range of totalizing schemes.

ITALY - Leaders of the world’s biggest economies made a compromise commitment Sunday to reach carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a two-day summit that was laying the groundwork for the UN climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. According to the final communique, the Group of 20 leaders also agreed to end public financing for coal-fired power generation abroad, but set no target for phasing out coal domestically — a clear nod to top carbon polluters China and India. The Group of 20 countries, which represent more than three-quarters of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, had been looking for common ground and solid commitments on how to reduce emissions while helping poor countries deal with the impact of rising temperatures. Without them, momentum could be lost for the larger annual talks in Glasgow that officially opened Sunday and where countries from around the globe will be represented, including poor ones most vulnerable to rising seas, desertification and other effects.

ISRAEL - Israel’s Home Front Command and National Emergency Authority (RAHEL) is holding a week-long drill that started on Sunday simulating a large-scale war in which civilians are evacuated from northern border communities and security agencies will deal with massive rocket barrages sent by Hezbollah. The drill is taking lessons that have been learned from past events in the North, as well as those from the May fighting between Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip – Operation Guardian of the Walls – and from the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Following the May fighting, the Home Front Command “carried out a very significant learning process with a lot of research, and this exercise is going to test what we’ve learned,” said Home Front Command Chief of Staff Brigadier General Itzik Bar. Israel Police and Magen David Adom are also participating in the drill, which ends Thursday, and will see all security and various governmental bodies take part.

ISRAEL - As far as Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid are concerned, this week has brought a perfect storm of circumstances that threaten to complicate their hopes for a better relationship with the United States. But blistering criticism was issued by the US State Department on two issues: its renewed commitment to reopening a US consulate in Jerusalem and settlement building in the West Bank. On top of that is the news that Iran is returning to nuclear talks in Vienna. …Former defense secretary Robert Gates admirably summed up his career, Biden has been wrong about every important foreign policy issue for 40 years. He always tells listeners how much he loves Israel, but also thinks he knows better than its leaders and its people what is in their best interests. He believes in applying “tough love” to naughty Israelis who need American guidance. Biden also doesn’t take kindly to criticism.

VATICAN - Earlier this morning Catholic Archbishop Viganon released his statement regarding Joe Biden’s visit to the Vatican. Vigano has been a big supporter of freedom in Italy, supporting the protesters of the country’s mandatory vaccine for all employees in the country. “Every Catholic knows that the killing of a defenseless creature in the mother’s womb is a horrendous crime; and that the most serious scandal is given to the faithful not only by Joe Biden as a convinced supporter of abortion, but also by Bergoglio himself [the current Pope], who is recognized as holding the authority of Supreme Pastor of the Church. …The Church of Christ, which today has been reduced to climate change, inclusive capitalism, and mass vaccination. Bergoglio was recently recognized as “moral guide” by the Council for Inclusive Capitalism led by Lynn Forester de Rothschild, and he appointed Jeffrey David Sachs as a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Sachs is the president of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network of the United Nations, a supporter of reducing the global population and of the fight against climate change – this has nothing to do with the mission of the Papacy and ought to lead the Prelates of the Church to seriously ask themselves about Bergoglio’s mental and moral suitability for the role he holds.”

USA - Worldwide Walkouts [November 3rd] will demand a return to freedom and democratic principles. Citizens around the globe are protesting loss of liberty, illegal mandates and tyrannical government overreach. Every man, woman and child is important to this movement!

USA - Robert F Kennedy, Jr is a well-known anti-vaxxer, in the true sense of the word. Kennedy has been no less strident about the COVID-19 vaccines, as well as the pandemic response from national and world leaders. In February, NBC News reported that Kennedy was barred from Instagram because the platform determined that he was, “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines,” said a spokesperson for Facebook, which owns Instagram.

USA - 26 New York firehouses have been forced to close after firefighters refused to get vaccinated, as seven-year-old dies in blaze and union warns lives are at risk. A total of 26 New York firehouses have been forced to close after firefighters refused to get vaccinated ahead of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Monday deadline - and a seven-year-old boy died the following day as departments saw major staff shortages. The Uniformed Firefighters Association revealed a list of FDNY stations that 'have close due to no manpower' and it includes six in Manhattan, nine in Brooklyn, three in Queens, four in the Bronx and four in Staten Island. On Friday FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro warned that the effects of the closures could be catastrophic and 'endanger the lives' of city residents. A day later Robert Resto, 7, was killed and his 54-year-old grandmother were seriously hurt after a deadly blaze engulfed their Washington Heights home around 1.30am Saturday. All municipal workers have been ordered to show proof of at least one dose of the vaccine by 5pm Friday or risk being placed on unpaid leave come Monday.

GERMANY - In the midst of negotiations to form a new governing coalition in Berlin, Germany’s federal government is threatening Russia with the use of nuclear weapons. In an interview with Deutschlandfunk last Thursday, incumbent Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (Christian Democrats, CDU) said, “We have to make it very clear to Russia that in the end — and that is also the deterrent doctrine — we are ready to use such means [nuclear weapons] so that it has a deterrent effect beforehand and nobody gets the idea, for example, to attack NATO partners in the areas over the Baltic states or in the Black Sea. That is the core idea of NATO, this alliance, and it will be adapted to the current behaviour of Russia.” The fact that Kramp-Karrenbauer speaks of the use of nuclear weapons against Russia without blinking an eye gives harrowing insight into the state of mind at the highest levels of the German state.

UK - After months of death threats, bullying, and abuse from students and staff, common sense hero and philosophy professor Kathleen Stock has resigned from her job, refusing to cave on the nonsense notion that ‘trans women are women’. Kathleen Stock has had enough. One of Britain’s most prominent radical feminists, she has quit her post, and in the process shamed the timid academics in charge at the University of Sussex. Stock argues against the critical theory on gender construct that natal sex and gender identity are two separate things. The critical theory fundamentally holds that the gender identity of a person is defined not by what is between their legs, but what is between their ears. That doctors identifying babies at birth as either male or female are only taking a guess at the gender that at best is 50 percent right, because those babies are yet to choose the gender they really want. Truly, this is how mad it gets, and that’s why Stock begs to differ. “In the vast majority of cases, sex is not assigned at birth, but detected – in most cases via observation at birth and in a few cases later on,” she writes in ‘Material Girls’. “Sex cannot be ‘resassigned’ though surgery or a change in legal status, nor ‘changed’.”

UK - A brave feminist professor’s forensic takedown of the illogical claim that ‘trans women are women’. Philosopher Kathleen Stock, in her new book ‘Material Girls’, fights back against the ‘immersed fiction’ of trans activists who ignore reality and push gender identity theory to the detriment of women and girls. It’s an alarming sign of the times that the first foray into public debate of the UK’s new head of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has been to defend an individual’s right to think what they like without fear of being punished for those thoughts.

USA - Nothing screams “Halloween!” like Disney giving kids the chance to explore ‘gender fluidity’ with ‘queer role models.’ This begs the question: where do we draw the line between corporate virtue signaling and pedophilia? This week, it was revealed that Disney is hosting a drag-queen story hour for the children of its employees. The virtual Halloween-themed event will capture “the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood,” while giving impressionable youngsters “glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models,” according to Disney emails seen by Breitbart News.

USA - A Florida school board member received backlash this week after she took an elementary school class on a field trip to a gay bar with suggestive menu items. Broward school board member Sarah Leonardi posted photos of the school trip on Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday which showed the masked children sitting inside the rainbow-themed bar. “I was SO honored to be invited to chaperone Wilton Manors Elementary’s field trip to the incredible Rosie’s! The students and I had a fun walk over and learned a lot about our community!” Leonardi wrote, before thanking the bar “for hosting this special field trip every year” – an indication that it was not the first time such a trip took place. Leonardi’s post angered many people on social media, who questioned why children were being taken to an adult, alcohol-oriented venue for a school trip instead of a more appropriate location like a museum or the zoo.

USA - International Man: Western countries are leading the charge in restructuring their economies around the issue of climate change. They’re committed to a comprehensive agenda to “decarbonize” their economies by 2050. What’s your take on this? Doug Casey: To sum it up in one word, it’s insane. In two words, it’s criminally insane.