USA - The United States' top military officer warned soldiers graduating from West Point Saturday to prepare for a 'significant international conflict' with Russia and China - a skirmish he said will see the cadets battle robotic tanks, ships, and planes. 'You'll be fighting with robotic tanks and ships and airplanes,' General Mark Milley, America's highest ranking officer, said, speaking to more than 1,000 Army officer hopefuls. 'We've witnessed a revolution in lethality and precision munitions. What was once the exclusive province of the United States military is now available to most nation states with the money will to acquire them.' During his address, Milley, chairman of the Army's Joint Chiefs of Staff and the principal military advisor to the president, told graduates to prepare for the brewing conflict - which he said is sure to change how future wars are fought.

ETHIOPIA - Ethiopia is not in the best of shape in its finances, although the Ministry of Planning and Development is expecting a 6.6 percent economic growth. The war has ravaged the economy and communities in many places. Devastating drought has affected considerably large parts of Ethiopia. Recently, after an apparent rapprochement between Abiy Ahmed’s government on the one hand and the US and European Union, if it is not a staged one, the World Bank injected $300 million in “aid” for reconstruction of war torn areas. The gap is still big. Yet, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has his own priority. A prestigious project of a $1 billion dollar new palace. That makes it the next mega project in the country next to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), according to a report by the Reporter. The place selected for the project is Yeka-Sub City. It will be constructed on 503 hectares of land.

USA - No warning. No consent. No joke. Passengers are now being sprayed with the toxin Permithrin. I just dodged forced injections and nasal probe violations, by connecting through Mexico, on route to a very important event: the inaugural 3 day WCH Better Way Conference starting today, May 20th. On route, all the passengers including myself were heavily sprayed with the neurotoxin insecticide permithrin. There was no warning and no consent; that’s assault, and its happening around the world!

GERMANY - Volker Weichsel argues that a rethink is necessary: "For 70 years, German society believed that it could prevent war by never again turning into an aggressor. They thought their role was to keep on apologizing for their past actions. The idea that someone else could be the aggressor and that Germany would have to rush to the aid of a victim with weapons - that was unthinkable for very large sections of German society. The rethinking has just begun." Germany has developed a credibility problem since the invasion of Ukraine because of its history as a partner of Russia. This could have an impact on the balance of power in the EU. Chancellor Olaf Scholz's level-headed and, according to observers, hesitant style is seen as weakness by some.

VATICAN - Pope Francis waded into the abortion debates Sunday, slamming the pro-choice position and lauding an Italian pro-life group that defends unborn life as sacred and inviolable. In the immediate aftermath of a decision by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone to bar Nancy Pelosi from receiving Holy Communion due to her aggressive abortion advocacy, Pope Francis expressed concern over a pro-choice mentality that fails to respect life. At his weekly recitation of the Regina Caeli prayer, the pontiff thanked participants in a national “Let’s Choose Life” event for their “dedication in promoting life and defending conscientious objection, which there are often attempts to limit.” The pope went on to lament an erosion of an ethics that values and defends human life in favor of a mistaken exaltation of individual “choice.” “Let us remember that life is a gift from God! It is always sacred and inviolable, and we cannot silence the voice of conscience,” he concluded.

USA - As news of the COVID pandemic winds down around the world, we’re suddenly seeing warnings of another pandemic brewing — bird flu, aka avian influenza (H5N1). Some of that research has been undertaken in Pentagon-funded biolabs in Ukraine. Gates funded research by Dr Yoshihiro Kawaoka, in which the bird flu virus was mixed with the 2009 H1N1 (swine flu) virus, creating an airborne hybrid capable of completely evading the human immune system, effectively rendering humans defenseless against it. The US and other countries have already started stockpiling H5N1 vaccine, and the H5N1 vaccine Audenz is being marketed “for 2022.” As if on cue, the first-ever H5N1-positive case was identified in the US at the end of April 2022. Anyone who knows a little about bird flu is likely to wonder where Redfield and other “experts” are getting their predictions from, as natural bird flu is notoriously harmless to humans. If we do end up with a lethal human bird flu, there’s every reason to suspect it was manmade. There’s also every reason to suspect a bird flu vaccine will be either ineffective, hazardous or both.

USA - Nearly 20 years after the release of Al Gore’s ridiculous ‘an inconvenient truth‘ documentary that warned of impending doom from global warming and served as the catalyst to all of the subsequent climate hysteria, more new data has emerged confirming that global temperatures have remained mostly “on pause since 1998.” In other words, the issue was essentially nonexistent even when Gore made his ‘bold’ predictions in 2006. Emeritus Professor Ole Humlum, who contributed to the report, confirmed in a statement that the data definitively shows “there has been no clear trend towards higher or lower temperatures.” In the data, researchers found that global temperatures have been “on pause” for nearly 8 years running. Oddly enough, this data and an additional lengthy pause have been “largely wiped” from public records. The findings were included in the recently released “State of the Climate Report” by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.

ISRAEL - A Jerusalem court ruled on Sunday that Jews should now be permitted to recite the seminal Jewish “Hear o Israel” prayer as well as bow down on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, in a decision that sparked an outcry among Arab officials. Three Jewish teenagers were arrested after being caught praying at the holy site, in violation of a arrangement with the Jordanian Islamic Waqf that bars Jewish prayer there.

EUROPE - Consumer price growth has hit double digits in at least a third of EU countries, with the most severe spike seen in the Baltic region, the Financial Times reported this week. According to the paper, nine members of the bloc have seen inflation surpass 10%, with the biggest increase observed in Estonia, where consumer prices have surged by 19% year-on-year. Other badly affected countries are Lithuania with inflation at 16.8%, Bulgaria with 14.4%, the Czech Republic with 14.2%, along with Romania (13.8%), Latvia (13%), Poland (12.4%) and Slovakia (11.7%). The publication added that Turkey, which has had the status of an EU candidate since 1999, has an inflation rate of 70% due to the collapse of the national currency. Also, recent media reports citing the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) say that inflation in Greece surged to double digits in April, amounting to 10.2% year-on-year.

NATO - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg addressed the Allied defence chiefs on Thursday (19 May 2022), at the start of the one-day Military Committee in Chiefs of Defence session. He outlined the changed security environment due to Russia’s… war in Ukraine, describing it as “a crucial and dangerous time for Euro-Atlantic security.” President Putin is failing in his strategic objectives, the Secretary General said, “Ukraine stands, NATO remains strong, and transatlantic unity is solid”. Mr Stoltenberg thanked the thirty Chiefs of Defence [in] defend[ing] every inch of NATO territory against threats from any direction. “It is important that we sustain our efforts and ‘reset’ our posture for the longer term”, he said, adding that “resetting does not mean starting from scratch. We will build on our ongoing adaptation” since Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. The 2022 Concept “will drive the future adaptation of our Alliance, so that we are better prepared for an era of strategic competition and rising security threats”, Mr Stoltenberg said.

USA - Eight decades ago, America’s ‘arsenal of democracy’ helped in the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. In recent years, however, it's been less effective. American democracy in action is as perturbing and frustrating to watch for a US citizen as it is confounding to outsiders. It's become especially true in this age of extreme partisan politics, where legislation is prepared, debated, stalled, passed, or killed through parliamentary procedures and processes that are opaque even to those participating in them.

EUROPE - In response to the European Council tasking at the Versailles Summit, the Commission and the High Representative have presented an analysis of the defence investment gaps, and propose further measures and actions necessary to strengthen the European defence industrial and technological base. Russia's unprovoked aggression against Ukraine has significant implications for European defence, which is leading to increased military spending by Member States. With today's Joint Communication, the Commission and the High Representative aim to help Member States to invest together, better and in a European way. It also responds to the call made in the context of the Conference of the Future of Europe for stronger EU action in defence.

USA - The San Francisco archbishop issued a notice Friday that he would no longer allow House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion, an escalation of his feud with the Catholic Democrat over abortion politics. In a public notification to Pelosi, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone wrote that he had warned Pelosi in April that she must either repudiate her support of abortion rights or not refer to her Catholicism in justifying them, and that Pelosi declined to meet with him. “As you have not publically repudiated your position on abortion, and continue to refer to your Catholic faith in justifying your position and to receive Holy Communion, that time has now come,” Cordileone wrote. “Therefore, in light of my responsibility as the Archbishop of San Francisco to be ‘concerned for all the Christian faithful entrusted to (my) care’ ... I am hereby notifying you that you are not to present yourself for Holy Communion and, should you do so, you are not to be admitted to Holy Communion, until such time as you publicly repudiate your advocacy for the legitimacy of abortion and confess and receive absolution of this grave sin in the sacrament of Penance.”

SWITZERLAND - The World Economic Forum is the ideas and narratives shop for the ruling class, and Davos is where it all goes down. The infamous World Economic Forum (WEF) will host its annual meeting in Davos next week... For those of you who are new to this nefarious organization: The World Economic Forum (WEF), through its annual Davos conference, acts as the go-to policy and ideas shop for the ruling class.

BELGIUM - The first mandatory quarantine for monkeypox has been introduced in Belgium, which recently hosted a massive gay pride and fetish festival attended by an estimated 80,000 people in Antwerp. “Those infected with the monkey pox virus must be in isolation for 21 days,” the Dutch publication Standaard reported. “Not high-risk contacts, but they’re best watching over any symptoms. In the meantime, virologist Marc Van Ranst wants to investigate whether the virus can spread airborne.” Belgium recently hosted the Gran Canaria pride festival, which has been labeled a monkeypox ‘superspreader’ event after attendees from multiple nations appear to have spread the virus worldwide. “The Gran Canarian pride festival attended by 80,000 from Britain and across Europe is being investigated after being linked to numerous monkeypox cases in Madrid, Italy and Tenerife,” the Daily Mail reported.