USA - As it turns out, the climate lobby loves to pull its “facts” right out of thin air, including the newly minted fiction that “More than 11,000 scientists declare ‘climate emergency.'” While this regurgitated mainstream media headline is pretty cut and dry, the claim it makes is patently false, we’ve now learned. Just like the Greta Thunberg hoax, the notion that more than 11,000 actual scientists are suddenly lamenting an impending “climate emergency” has absolutely no basis in reality. In truth, these 11,000 “scientists” are actually just 11,000 ordinary people who were duped into believing that cow farts are destroying the planet, and subsequently responded by signing their names on some website.

USA - Will Witt of PragerU hit the road again recently and found himself on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he asked students at the exclusive school, "How many genders are there?" As you might expect from students on the ultra-woke campus, Witt got a lot of answers that went far beyond a simple "just male and female."

ISRAEL - On Tuesday, terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired hundreds of rockets at Israel in retaliation for Israel’s targeted killing of the senior commander of Islamic Jihad in Gaza. Many of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system, but quite a few got through, and some even reached as far as Tel Aviv. Following those rocket attacks, Israeli tanks and aircraft pounded Islamic Jihad positions in the Gaza Strip, and Israeli officials are pledging to continue to respond to any additional attacks. Unfortunately, it certainly sounds like more attacks are coming. According to Islamic Jihad’s Secretary-General Ziad al-Nakhala, his organization is “going to war” with Israel.

USA - Democracy depends on the consent of the losers. For most of the 20th century, parties and candidates in the United States have competed in elections with the understanding that electoral defeats are neither permanent nor intolerable. The losers could accept the result, adjust their ideas and coalitions, and move on to fight in the next election. Ideas and policies would be contested, sometimes viciously, but however heated the rhetoric got, defeat was not generally equated with political annihilation. The stakes could feel high, but rarely existential. In recent years, however, beginning before the election of Donald Trump and accelerating since, that has changed.

POLAND - More than 50,000 Polish nationalists paraded on the streets of Warsaw for this year's Independence March on Monday. Tens of thousands of people, waving Polish flags, were young and old, of all walks of life, with whole families, took to the streets. Thousands sang "Take care of the whole nation," which are lyrics from a Polish Catholic song, asking the Virgin Mary to defend the country. Others waved patriotic flags and chanted "No to the European Union" and "God, honor, homeland!" To the western media, these are Nazis, racists, anti-semites, and islamophobes. An abomination for the European Union.

EUROPE - During his speech President Trump referenced the increased violence in Sweden due to the tremendous influx of refugees. President Trump: “You look at what’s happening in Germany, you look at what’s happening last night in Sweden — Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden — they took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible. You look at what’s happening in Brussels. You look at what’s happening all over the world. Take a look at Nice. Take a look at Paris.” But Trump was right. Migrants are changing the face of Sweden. The bombings and violence have continued to escalate in once peaceful Sweden. Denmark will temporarily reinstate border controls with Sweden and step up police work along the border after a series of violent crimes and explosions around Copenhagen that Danish authorities say were carried out by perpetrators from Sweden.

USA - In an Iowa State University classroom recently, students began discussing the touchy issues of abortion and birth control when a student spoke up and declared those topics to be “women’s issues.” Yet one dissatisfied student took to the university’s Campus Climate reporting website to complain that the discussion, which took place in September, was offensive to the trans community. According to the student, declaring abortion and birth control women-centric issues “erases trans men and people who are non-binary who get abortions and/or use birth control.” In another complaint, a student last fall visited Thielen psychiatric services on campus, and while filling out the paperwork, noticed only women were asked when they had their last menstrual cycle. “Women are not the only people who have menstrual cycles,” the student wrote. “Trans-men can have menstrual cycles, as can non-binary people, etc.”

USA - San Francisco’s pee problem could soon get worse. Chesa Boudin, the urine-and-feces-plagued city’s incoming district attorney, pledged during the campaign not to prosecute public urination and other quality-of-life crimes if he was elected. Boudin declared victory Saturday night after results showed him winning a plurality of votes in the DA race. “We will not prosecute cases involving quality-of-life crimes. Crimes such as public camping, offering or soliciting sex, public urination, blocking a sidewalk, etc, should not and will not be prosecuted,” Boudin vowed in response to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) questionnaire during the campaign. “Many of these crimes are still being prosecuted, we have a long way to go to decriminalize poverty and homelessness,” he lamented.

USA - There have been roughly 118,352 reported instances of human fecal matter spotted on San Francisco streets since 2011 as California works to stem the tide of poop coursing through the Golden State, an April Forbes report noted. OpenTheBooks.com plotted all reports of human waste in the city over the past eight years. Auditors at OpenTheBooks used latitude and longitude address coordinates of all cases closed by the San Francisco Department of Public Works. The cost for the 2017-2018 fiscal year jumped to nearly $54 million from $35 million in the 2016-2017 fiscal year, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2018. 2019 is expected to hit nearly $60 million.

AUSTRALIA - Bushfires are raging across Australia, impacting Queensland, Sydney and Perth as temperatures rise. Now fresh warnings have been issued as weather conditions could worsen fires. In New South Wales, more than 200 homes have been destroyed since Friday, and communities have evacuated as firefighters tackle the flames. Some residents have repeatedly been evacuated as the fire shrinks and then reignites back towards residential areas. Mayor of the Queensland town of Noosa North Shore, Tony Wellington, said residents were being evacuated for the second time in a week. He told Australian Broadcasting Corp: ”It’s bad enough being evacuated once let alone multiple times.”

UK - Britain will be battered with miserable wet weather in the coming days as dozens of flood warnings and alerts remain in effect across the country. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced his intention to offer more support for communities in parts of northern England affected by the severe flooding. Several measures will be enacted to assist the rescue efforts, including 100 Army personnel being deployed to the area. The prime minister said it had been “an absolute tragedy for those who have seen such damage to their homes and livestock”. More than 1,000 households have been evacuated across the north of England as a result of the flooding. Around 500 homes have been flooded in Doncaster alone.

EUROPE - Storm activity across Europe is on the up this week, as three storms are forecast to hit the Iberian Peninsula. Storm Bernardo is already impacting the Iberian Peninsula, triggering orange weather warnings for wind and rain. Forecasters are predicting Bernardo to be a high impact storm and will churn seas and thrash the western Mediterranean coast. Bernardo will also increase the risk of avalanches in Picos de Europa National Park in Northern Spain. The Asturias regional weather service warned of avalanches: “Within a short period a lot of new snow will fall on the snow already present. The amount of snow that is now in the mountains has become considerable. This considerably increases the risk of ‘spontaneous avalanches’.”

ITALY - Venice was swamped by flood waters on Tuesday, as it experienced the second highest tide in its history. Iconic city submerged by worst floods in 50 years as disaster declared. City officials said the tide peaked at 6.14ft at 10.50 pm, just short of the record 6.4ft set in 1966. The city’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, declared a state of disaster and warned of severe damage. He tweeted that “it will be a long night”, and compared the flood to “a wound that will leave a permanent mark.” Italy has been gripped by a powerful weather front that has brought torrential rain to all parts of the country, especially in the south.

BANGLADESH AND INDIA - At least 10 people have been killed and millions displaced after Cyclone Bulbul smashed into India and Bangladesh over the weekend. The storm hit Bangladesh late on Saturday night, and led to severe flooding there and in neighboring India. The bad weather has since dissipated, but many are still waiting to return to their homes. Enamur Rahman, Bangladesh's minister for disaster management, said a total of 2.16 million people have been evacuated from their homes across the country. Most of the 10 victims confirmed dead as a result of the storm were killed by falling debris. India's meteorological authorities classified Bulbul as a severe cyclonic storm, with a maximum sustained wind speed of 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph). Bulbul is not the first powerful storm to hit the region this year. In May, seven people died following Cyclone Fani, the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in India in 20 years.

USA - Thousands of flights were canceled or delayed, some areas struggled under more than a foot of snow and more than 200 million people faced a freezing forecast Tuesday as a historic Arctic air mass swept across much of the nation. Bitter cold temperatures were reported from the Canadian border to South Texas. The freeze was moving east, headed for a swath from New England to Florida. Chicagoans awoke to single digits, a few inches of snow and a forecast high of 20 degrees that would smash the city's record for the date by 8 degrees. That's after an American Eagle flight slid off a runway Monday while landing at O'Hare International Airport. No injuries were reported. The National Weather Service in Chicago warned that the combination of air temperatures and blustery northwest winds had sent wind chills below zero.