The New York Times defended an explicit book aimed at children called Sex is a Funny Word, which has been found in various school libraries. The author of the book, Corey Silverberg, is the cofounder of what was referred to as a “beginner’s sex shop.” “Now they want to charge you with a FELONY if your school wants you to change your kid’s gender — and you don’t agree!” the advertisement continues.

Leftist politicians also want to “legally require movie theaters, restaurants, and other businesses to let men use the women’s restroom,” the ad notes. “The radical left has lost their minds and it’s only getting worse,” the advertisement, which is currently playing in Georgia, asserts. “Stop the insanity,” it demands.

“Come and vote,” he told supporters in the central Israeli city of Rehovot this month. “Convince your friends, family and neighbors.” Voters are exhausted by yet another election that is expected to produce the same outcome. The race is tight, with polls showing no party will win an outright majority.

Mr Netanyahu, 73 years old, is trying to stage a political comeback that would provide a capstone to more than 30 years in public life. Polls show he is within striking distance of becoming Israel’s prime minister for a sixth time in Tuesday’s election, adding to his record 15 years as premier and further cementing his legacy as a political powerhouse.

Addressing the crowd, Mussolini's great-granddaughter Orsola said: 'After 100 years, we are still here to pay homage to the man this state wanted and whom we will never stop admiring.' The march marked 100 years since black-shirted fascists entered Rome and launched a coup d'état which saw Mussolini rule for 21 years.

At least 42 people were swept away by rampaging floodwaters and drowned or were hit by debris-filled mudslides in three towns in Maguindanao province from Thursday night to early Friday, said Naguib Sinarimbo, the interior minister for a five-province Muslim autonomous region governed by former separatist guerrillas.

Five other people died elsewhere from the onslaught of Tropical Storm Nalgae, which slammed into the eastern province of Camarines Sur early Saturday, the government’s disaster-response agency said.

Two of those killed are Americans, US officials in Seoul announced Sunday. More than 1,700 emergency workers were deployed from across South Korea to respond to one of the deadliest crowd crushes in recent history - including about 520 firefighters, 1,100 police officers and 70 government workers.

South Korea has now declared a week of mourning after people reportedly 'fell like dominoes' around 10:30pm during the fatal crush at the Halloween festival, where a 100,000-strong crowd had gathered in narrow streets. Dozens reportedly suffered cardiac arrests and the current death toll stands at 153, including at least 19 foreign nationals, with many of the victims being women in their 20s.

“At least five or six locations along the river, including Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri are seeing historically low-water levels," said Clint Willson, the director of the LSU Center for River Studies and the Mike N Dooley, PE Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering.

"The reason for this is that a large percentage of the Mississippi River watershed, which covers approximately 42% of the contiguous United States, is either in a drought or is experiencing extremely dry conditions. Typically, in the fall, at least one or two of the major Mississippi River tributaries would be in 'normal' flow conditions and the river would not be this low."

“We are standing on a historic frontier,” Putin said on Thursday at the Valdai Discussion Club’s annual meeting in Moscow. “Ahead is probably the most dangerous, unpredictable and, at the same time, important decade since the end of World War II.”

In any case, Putin said, “the historical period of the West’s undivided dominance over world affairs is coming to an end.” Citing a 1978 quote by Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, he said, “the West has a blindness of superiority.” “Almost half a century later, the blindness Solzhenitsyn spoke of, openly racist and neo-colonial in nature, has become simply ugly, especially after the emergence of the so-called unipolar world.”

Beyond facing food insecurity, the same survey also found that high inflation is forcing Americans to delay certain healthcare expenses. Fourteen percent of Americans have canceled or postponed plans to see a healthcare specialist, ten percent have delayed taking prescribed medication, and 11 percent stalled receiving a yearly physical.

Grocery prices have climbed 13 percent from a year ago, rising 0.7 percent from August to September. Since last year, egg prices have skyrocketed by 30 percent, dairy-related products are up by 15.9 percent, bread is up by 14.7 percent, and butter is up by 26.6 percent.

So how does anyone think censoring information that the “UN deems unhelpful” so there is only one “harmonious” truth, for a singularly “united world,” is a good thing? Are people really buying this? This is what Hitler wanted, Lenin wanted, Stalin wanted, Mao wanted, Saddam Hussein wanted, Osama bin Laden wanted, to name just a few recent ones…

It is funny how all of this is cloaked in a “diversity, equity, inclusion” sound bite. They don’t want “diversity and inclusion” any more than they want us to “be happy.” Just like they don’t want the climate stabilized so we can enjoy a healthy planet. None of this is as it seems; what they are pushing has zero benefit to the masses.

The UN statement is the same, they don’t want a stable, harmonious, united world, they want a controllable world, a world where the people are like numbers, faceless, uniform, NOT diverse, NOT unique, NOT inclusive. They do not want troublemakers, they do not want thinkers, they do not want diverse, interesting, and creative minds. Once again I point you to Orwell’s brilliant 1984. Take a look at THAT culture if you want to see what “they want.” It is a pretty good example.

From coast to coast, the number of addicts just continues to grow, the number of people sleeping on the streets just continues to grow, and crime rates are rising to frightening levels. If things are already this bad while the economy is still relatively stable, what will our major cities look like when economic conditions really start deteriorating in 2023 and beyond?

Mussolini is praised for having provided Italy with much-needed infrastructure, from trains to highways, as well as social welfare programmes - even if many of these projects were already underway when he took office. ...An obelisk inscribed with the words "Mussolini Dux" still sits a stone's throw from the Olympic stadium in Rome, with no note of context. Portraits of the dictator still adorn the walls of some government ministries.

US Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said Mauna Loa has been in a state of "heightened unrest" since mid-month due to daily earthquake swarms which jumped from 10-20 per day to 40-50 per day. "Scientists believe more earthquakes are occurring because more magma is flowing into Mauna Loa's summit reservoir system from the hot spot under the earth's surface that feeds molten rock to Hawaii's volcanoes," AP said.

Mauna Loa is about half of the Hawaii Island landmass. So any eruption would immediately impact residents. There are about 200,000 people on the island. It last erupted in 1984, and lava flows took out homes in under two hours. USGS data shows hundreds of quakes have rattled the island in the last 30 days.

Meanwhile, in Poland the USA is superseding an initiative being promoted by Berlin to create a European air defense system, at the same time, establishing Poland as a hub for the proliferation of US nuclear technology in Eastern and Southeastern Europe – at the expense of the French nuclear industry. The USA is using the Three Seas Initiative to begin to transform Eastern and Southeastern Europe into another market for US liquified gas. This regional project comprises twelve nations between the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Seas and was launched by Poland and others in 2015 at Washington’s suggestion. This initiative runs counter to German interests in the region.

The dispute over who should lead the reconstruction – and thereby determine the Ukraine’s future orientation – persisted on Tuesday at the Reconstruction Conference in Berlin. The conference had been jointly organized by the EU and the G7 – a circumstance that Scholz wanted to be understood as “neither the one nor the other” but everyone doing it together. Now, a structure must be created that would be “a composite of many.” This, of course, does not end the power struggle.

Rather, it seems that this election is about something deeper – about the kind of Israel we want to see here in this land. This is not a trivial question. It comes at a unique time in Jewish and Israeli history. In just six months, Israel will mark 75 years of statehood, and the country has never been stronger.

Just look at the past week from a military and diplomatic perspective: There were three alleged strikes in Syria, a successful raid in Nablus, President Isaac Herzog met at the White House with President Joe Biden, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz went to Ankara to meet with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Are there threats? Of course. But Israel, just a few months shy of its 75th Independence Day, has power unimaginable just a few years ago.

Economically, the country is also in a place that – not so long ago – did not seem possible. Is there inflation? Yes. Are we on the cusp of a possible global recession? Possibly. But when you compare Israel to other countries, our national currency is strong, unemployment is extremely low and we have unique energy independence. Who would have believed five years ago that Israel would one day supply gas to Egypt and Jordan? Who would have thought that the president of the European Commission would come to Israel and not say a word about the so-called “occupation” and only talk about how she can get some of Israel’s gas to Europe?

This is what the Tuesday election is about. It is not just about Netanyahu or Yair Lapid. It is not about the Ra’am Party being in the coalition or not. It is about the type of country we want to have when celebrating three-quarters of a century of statehood and dreaming about the centenary. That is what we are voting on.

But the iceberg goes deeper still. The BBC regularly features the Islamist Abdel Bari Atwan as a commentator on its high-profile programs in both Arabic and English. London-based Atwan has praised terror attacks against Israelis as a “miracle,” has stated that he would dance in Trafalgar Square if Iran attacked Israel, expressed sympathy with the man who attacked novelist Salman Rushdie and – unbelievably – defended the 1972 massacre of the Israeli Olympic team in Munich. The Chronicle has brought this man’s track record to the attention of the BBC on numerous occasions, but it refuses to remove him from its programs.