Towards the end of the debate, the moderators highlighted a German public opinion survey showing the top three security concerns of the public were all tied to climate change, an issue Green candidate Baerbock is known for championing. "All we can say is the citizens show good judgement here," Scholz said.

At the debate's conclusion, when the candidates were asked to speak of what they admired in the other two, both Laschet and Scholz praised Baerbock's pragmatic idealist approach to tackling difficult problems in the world. Baerbock by contrast praised Scholz for his calm and Laschet for his resilience in the face of headwinds.

Rather than reject the derogatory label, an ideology of complete government control that is responsible for over 200 million worldwide, a totalitarian system that rejects individual liberty and results in poverty, starvation, and tyranny wherever it’s been tried, Ocasio-Cortez seemed to embrace it. Many American soldiers have died fighting communism during America’s existence. Now Democrats elect them into high office. And they’re not even denying it anymore.

There's a strong correlation between the rise in celiac disease over time and the rise in glyphosate usage on wheat, which is the primary culprit in celiac disease.

Glyphosate may worsen the adverse effects of vaccines, in part because it binds very efficiently to aluminum used as an adjuvant in certain vaccines. Live virus vaccines that do not contain aluminum adjuvant have also been found to be contaminated with glyphosate.

Non-GMO crops such as oats, wheat, barley and legumes like chickpeas and lentils tend to be very high in glyphosate because these crops are sprayed with glyphosate right before harvest as a desiccant to speed the drying process.

Glyphosate also disrupts the shikimate pathway, both in plants and microbes, and beneficial microbes are particularly sensitive to glyphosate.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Thursday that he was "very glad" to see a movement towards dialogue with Moscow, adding that the country was "geographically closer" with Russia than the United States. Kurz also argued that issues such as Ukraine affected Vienna more than they did Washington.

The French Ministry of Affairs said at the same time, that there was a need for a "required dialogue" with Russia, the objectives and parameters of which should be agreed upon with the European partners. President Macron said that there was a need for "ambitious" dialogue with Russia for the sake of Europe's stability in a bid to defend its interests.

The Kremlin has welcomed the initiative of holding a summit of Russia and the European Union, since both Moscow and Brussels need this dialogue, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "We positively assess this initiative. Putin is in favour of restoring mechanisms for dialogue and contacts between Brussels and Moscow, President Putin has repeatedly said that both Brussels and Moscow need this dialogue. Of course, we follow the summit that starts today in Brussels very closely, as well as the comments regarding this potential dialogue," Peskov told reporters.

Germans are having particular conniptions of late about Tesla, which provokes them in every way imaginable. It specializes in sexy cars that are also electric and thus climate-friendly. Germany specializes in cars that increasingly look like mutton dressed as lamb and — despite the marketing you may have seen — still mainly guzzle gas and diesel. Even more embarrassing, Tesla is run by Elon Musk, a risk-loving and impatient Anglo-Saxon who also smokes dope in podcasts, hosts comedy shows, drills through bedrock, launches rockets into space and is preparing to colonize Mars. Musk is as close to the opposite of the archetypically risk-averse, wooden, paper-pushing German executive as you can be. He’s Germany’s perfect foil.

But nobody seems to have told Musk about the ping-pong. The environmentalists who should love his electric cars hate his factory because it uses lots of water and might endanger wildlife. Germany’s largest labor union, IG Metall, is fighting him tooth and nail because he doesn’t want to sign its dotted lines. The factory’s opening has already been delayed, and Musk must be wondering what he was smoking when he chose this location. So Laschet deserves kudos for making bureaucracy an issue in the campaign leading up to September’s federal election.

It is not a question of Germany changing in the 16 years of Angela Merkel’s chancellorship — in these years it just stayed the course while its environment changed. The old post-Cold War paradigm of globalization secured by a US-guaranteed liberal international order has been replaced by a new one based on competition and conflict, with the return of military and economic coercion as a central dimension of international relations.

Yet instead of moving toward more global harmony, the world moved towards more conflict. Power and geopolitics are back. Russia invades and occupies parts of neighboring countries, threatens others, uses all kinds of tools to undermine the EU’s coherence, and intervenes in Syria to keep a dictator in power. China challenges the regional order in the Asia Pacific and increasingly treats European countries like subordinates, using harsh language and sanctions.

The “Merkel doctrine” of treating the United States, France, Russia, and China largely as partners, and making some concessions to each while frustrating them elsewhere, appears to be increasingly out of sync with this new, competitive environment. Germany’s ambiguity is increasingly irritating friends and competitors alike.

They want to know where it stands. Germany needs a bolder vision as the holiday from geopolitics is over and it is not anymore embedded in a US-guaranteed world order that allows it to put its business interests first. To continue its success story, Germany’s best option is to become a co-shaper of order itself — together with its main partners in Europe, North America, and Asia.

Let me give you five examples of what I am talking about…

#1 - 25-year-old Joel Davis was supposed to be one of the good guys. He was nominated for a Nobel prize after founding an organization that sought to end sexual violence against children, but how he has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for doing things that are absolutely unthinkable… Of course Davis is far from alone. There are 780,407 registered sex offenders in America today, but that number only includes those that have actually been caught.

#2 - Country music fans are supposed to be much better behaved than most other music fans, but even they are starting to behave like crazed mindless zombies. During a “Redneck Rave” in Kentucky this past weekend, there were numerous acts of violence and four dozen people were charged with various crimes…

#3 - Chicago has been a very violent city for a long time, but when Yasmin Perez and Gyovanni Arzuaga were dragged out of their vehicles and shot by an angry mob, it shocked the entire world… Arzuaga, 24, was fatally shot in the head, while Perez, the 25-year-old mother of the couple’s two children, was left in critical condition from a gunshot to the neck, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. We have now learned that Perez has died too. The couple had two children together, and now both of their parents are dead. What are those two children supposed to do now?

#4 - According to text messages obtained by the Daily Mail, it appears that Hunter Biden paid a Russian prostitute $25,000 using a financial account that was linked to his very famous father… In recent days, a number of extremely shocking revelations about Hunter Biden and the Biden family have come out in the British press. But the bigger story is that the corporate media in the United States is almost completely ignoring these revelations. Telling the truth about the Bidens would hurt the agendas that they are trying to push, and so the Bidens are off limits for now. Our corporate media is deeply, deeply corrupt, and that isn’t going to change.

#5 - The week, we learned that a CDC “safety group” has acknowledged that COVID shots are causing many teens to develop a “heart inflammatory condition”… Even though they know that this is happening, they are just going to keep giving injections to more kids. In the end, how many thousands upon thousands of young Americans will develop myocarditis or pericarditis as a result?

I could make this list much longer, but I think by now you get my point. From the very top to the very bottom, the very fabric of our society is coming apart at the seams. So many of the “good guys” turn out to be quite evil, and often the wickedness in the halls of power is even worse than it is in our streets. In the end, what we are facing is a heart problem. The hearts of the American people need to change, but at this point much of the population is eagerly rushing toward more evil as rapidly as they can.

In a June 17 position paper, the European Bishops’ Commission (COMECE) responded to the resolution from the European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, which declared that sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services “are essential healthcare services that should be available to all,” and include “safe and legal abortion care and services.”

The resolution declared that “denial of abortion care is a form of gender-based violence,” while taking special issue with Poland, which has outlawed eugenic abortions targeting babies with disabilities or genetic abnormalities such as Down syndrome.

“All too easily,” the bishops noted in their response, “the independent right to life of the child is left out of the consideration and it is overlooked that the unborn child is not the property of the parents, but precisely in its defencelessness is only entrusted to them.” The bishops declared that it is “ethically untenable” to classify abortion as an “essential health service,” an attempt that “degrades the unborn child.”

Research by Declassified has found that Prince Charles held 95 meetings with ruling families in the Middle Eastern monarchies since pro-democracy protests threatened their power in the uprisings of a decade ago. Charles’ diplomacy in the region, which comes at the request of the Foreign Office, has helped to cement controversial UK alliances with undemocratic regimes and promoted £14.5 billion worth of arms exports to them in the last decade.

Whenever Prince Charles travels abroad, Buckingham Palace press releases highlights of his visits to charitable causes, schools and hospitals, providing pictures of him and his wife Camilla – together known as the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall – with smiling children. However, Charles also routinely meets senior military, intelligence and internal security figures, either on overseas trips paid for by the British public purse or at Clarence House, his official residence in London.

If you are not familiar with the term “gaslighting”, the following is how Wikipedia defines it… “Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation in which a person or a group covertly sows seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group, making them question their own memory, perception, or judgement.” This is precisely what they are trying to do to all of us. Everyone can see that nightmarish inflation is already here, but they are trying to manipulate us into thinking that it is not.

Just look at home prices. Everyone needs a place to live, and existing home prices have risen 23.6 percent over the past year… But Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell insists that everything is just fine and that the Fed is perfectly capable of keeping inflation around 2 percent… How can you claim that you are going to “keep us around 2% inflation” when inflation is already out of control?

As John Williams of shadowstats.com has documented, if honest numbers were being used the official rate of inflation would already be well into double digits. Of course for certain categories we are now seeing triple digit inflation. For instance, at one point in May the price of lumber was four times higher than it was at the same time last year…

To me, one of the craziest examples of inflation in our economy is what is happening to used car prices. At this point, some used vehicles are now selling for more than they sold for when they were brand new… We have never seen anything happen like this before in all of US history. But Fed officials are going to continue to tell you that everything is just fine in the months ahead even as economic conditions continue to go haywire all around us.

What makes this tragedy much worse is that it could have been prevented. According to USA Today, a study that was conducted last year discovered that this particular building had been “sinking at an alarming rate” since the 90s…

So they knew that this was probably going to happen, and they did nothing to stop it. They also know that our entire economy is heading for a massive implosion, and they aren’t doing anything to stop that from happening either. I have been writing about America’s crumbling infrastructure for many years, and now we have gotten to a point where horrible “accidents” are occurring all around us on a regular basis.

Prior to the tragedy in Florida, the sudden collapse of a bridge in Washington DC was making headlines all over the nation… None of this should be a surprise to any of us. The ASCE has been sounding the alarm about America’s crumbling infrastructure for a very long time, but very few have been listening.