USA - The federal government Advisory Commission on Childhood Vaccines (ACCV) under the US Department of Health and Human Services just concluded their fourth and last meeting of 2019 on December 5th. At this meeting the Division of Injury Compensation Programs (DICP) reported that through December 1, 2019, the federal government’s National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program had paid out $‭225,457,658‬.00 for vaccine injuries and deaths for the fiscal year 2019. The fiscal year 2020 started October 1, 2019, and since that date ‭$31,710,574‬.00 has already been awarded as settlements in cases related to vaccine injuries and deaths.

USA - The average person will watch over 78,000 hours of television “programming” over the course of a lifetime. If you want to waste your life, a great way to do that is to spend tens of thousands of hours watching television. Today, it is so difficult to get people to leave their homes and get active in their communities, because most of us are absolutely glued to one screen or another. After a long day at school or a hard day at work, most of us understandably want to relax, and from a very early age most of us have been trained to turn to the television as our main source of relaxation. But of course there is great danger in allowing anyone to pump thousands upon thousands of hours of “programming” into our minds.

UK - British voters keep being called to the polls — and each time the options before them are worse. Labour and the Conservatives, once parties of the centre-left and -right, have steadily grown further apart in the three elections of the past four years. Next week voters face their starkest choice yet, between Boris Johnson, whose Tories promise a hard Brexit, and Jeremy Corbyn, whose Labour Party plans to “rewrite the rules of the economy” along radical socialist lines. Mr Johnson runs the most unpopular new government on record; Mr Corbyn is the most unpopular leader of the opposition. On Friday the 13th, unlucky Britons will wake to find one of these horrors in charge.

UK - The most left-wing government in British history is now a real possibility. Perhaps the most extraordinary part of the Labour Party agenda is the plan to seize 10 per cent of the shares in every big UK company. This is straightforward expropriation — the stuff of tinpot dictatorships. If any British government did this, our status as a place for world-class investment (and all the related jobs) would vanish. That’s the real significance of Corbyn’s programme, beyond the gargantuan, pie-in-the-sky spending numbers. It is openly anti-capitalist, confiscating property in a way that will harm those it seeks to help. So don’t think Nightmare on Downing Street couldn’t happen, because it could.

USA - Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the House of Representatives will file impeachment charges against US President Donald Trump for alleged abuse of power. "Our democracy is what is at stake, the president leaves us no choice but to act," the top elected Democrat said. Mr Trump said Democrats have "gone crazy" and urged them to move quickly if they were going to impeach him. Democrats say Mr Trump corruptly made military aid to Ukraine conditional on it investigating his rival, Joe Biden.

USA - Could it be possible that Nancy Pelosi and her minions in the House of Representatives had a completely different goal than we thought this entire time? The Democrats in the House plan to impeach President Trump, and it could potentially happen by the end of this month. But there appears to be zero chance that Trump will be removed from office by the Senate, and many will consider that to be a major victory for the Republicans. So why is Nancy Pelosi pushing ahead when she knows that this impeachment effort is going to fail? Could it be possible that this entire drama has simply been a political ploy to win votes in November 2020? “Civilization as we know it today is at stake in the next election, and certainly our planet,” Pelosi said. Nancy Pelosi knows that the Senate will not vote to convict Trump, but that is not what she is after. Her grand plan has always been to damage Trump for the 2020 election, and only time will tell if her gamble was successful.

ISRAEL - Hebrew prayers are being recited daily on the Temple Mount with a quorum and with prayers said out loud, a revolution in the status quo at the holy site that has developed quietly over recent months in a sea-change from the prior blanket ban on non-Muslim prayer. A group of regular worshippers comprised of Temple Mount activists visits the site every day for morning and afternoon prayers, and are joined by other visitors to the site who wish to pray. Police deny changes at the site, but video footage suggests blanket ban on non-Muslim prayer not enforced.

FRANCE - More than 800,000 people have marched in cities across France as railway workers, teachers and hospital staff held one of the biggest public sector strikes in decades against Emmanuel Macron’s plans to overhaul the pension system. A nationwide transport strike brought much of France to a standstill and was expected to continue for the next few days as unions dug in, saying the president’s pension changes would force millions of people to work longer or receive lower payments. French workers cherish their welfare state. That’s why they’re striking. Trains, metros and bus services were severely hit, some flights were cancelled and many schools were closed in the biggest challenge to Macron’s reform agenda since the gilets jaunes (yellow vest) anti-government protests erupted last year.

USA - It’s been well publicized that the Houston Public Library in Texas hosted two registered sex offenders for Drag Queen Story Hour. Soon after, a Texas library in Austin did the same. It was later revealed that Austin Public Library, as a matter of policy, does not conduct background checks on its guest performers for children’s programs, according to a January 2019 resolution passed by the city’s LGBTQ Quality of Life Advisory Commission.

EUROPE - Soft and obliging, with a friendly smile, yet nevertheless precise and only indirectly threatening, the calls for more power are being sounded in Berlin. The world should hear that the "language of power" encompasses all of Europe, according to the message of German elites and their emissary in Brussels, the EU commission president. They intend to persist in the world with the "language of power." EU Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen: "Europe must also learn the language of power."

"On the one hand, this means building our own muscles where we've long been relying on others — for example in security policies. That also means applying our existing power in a more targeted way in areas where European interests are concerned." The impression emitted by Brussels, as if it is "Europe," which is urgently pleading for more power and "muscle" – more military – does not conform to reality.

USA - In an October 17, 2019, article, Scientific American warns "We have no reason to believe 5G is safe," and that "contrary to what some people say, there could be health risks." The article, written by Joel M Moskowitz, PhD, director for the Center for Family and Community Health in the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley, notes: "The telecommunications industry and their experts have accused many scientists who have researched the effects of cell phone radiation of 'fear mongering' over the advent of wireless technology's 5G. Since much of our research is publicly-funded, we believe it is our ethical responsibility to inform the public about what the peer-reviewed scientific literature tells us about the health risks from wireless radiation."

USA - If you’re wondering why people who live in 5G rollout areas seem to be going insane, it’s not your imagination. 5G radiation causes “neuropsychiatric” effects through a mechanism described as ion potentiation poisoning of brain cells, according to research published in Environmental Research. This results in behavioral changes and even personality changes among those who are routinely exposed, researchers found. In other words, 5G is a weapon system that doubles as a telecommunications infrastructure, but the real impact is to damage human brain function and destroy rationality, reason and civility, especially among those who live in high population cities where 5G towers are becoming ubiquitous. That’s why you may have noticed increased insanity and widespread mental derangement in those areas.

UK - Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has warned that NATO and a future EU army cannot coexist. Mr Farage said during a campaign event in Buckley, Wales, on Monday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has to choose the UK’s place inside or out the European Defence Union. He said that if the nation commits to the proto-EU army post-Brexit, then the North Atlantic Treaty Organization could collapse. “NATO and a European Defence Union cannot coexist equally,” Mr Farage said in comments reported by POLITICO. He continued: “No man effectively can serve both. We’ve got a decision to make.” Mr Farage told voters in Wales on Monday that is EU is “not just talking about building their European Defence Union; they are talking about flexing their muscles around the world”. “I find that in itself very alarming talk. What is clear, what is absolutely clear, is they want NATO out of Europe. That’s what the politicians in Brussels want,” he continued.

EUROPE - Brussels has threatened years more Brexit talks on the day after the general election announcement, it has emerged. A leaked document has revealed that EU leaders will spell out plans for years more talks on Brexit, despite Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s pledge to “get Brexit done” on January 31. A fresh round of negotiations mean leaders will implement their own Brexit ticking clock, the Independent reports. EU chiefs are preparing to outline years more of Brexit talks. A summit will be held on election day in Brussels. The note describes how the transition is due to end in December 2020. However it also says it could be extendable for years after.

NORTH KOREA - Tensions between Washington and Pyongyang continue to grow as North Korean state media warn that a simmering conflict between the two nations could turn into a full-blown war at any given moment. Even an accident could now lead to an all-out armed conflict, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) warned, adding that if Washington resorts to military force Pyongyang would promptly respond in kind. The stark warning comes a day after US President Donald Trump threatened to use the military might of “the most powerful country in the world” against Pyongyang if he has to.