Putin heads to Tehran for talks with Iranian and Turkish leaders
The trilateral talks will focus on Syria but other key issues will also be addressed in the Iranian capital, the Kremlin has said
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scheduled to arrive in Tehran on Tuesday for talks with his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
It will be his second foreign trip since the launch of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine on February 24. In late June, he visited Turkmenistan and Tajikistan to meet the countries’ leaders and attend the sixth Caspian Summit, in which Iran also took part.
Gazprom Declares Force Majeure, Will Halt Gas Flows To Germany Indefinitely
Already days before the July 22 European "Doomsday" when the scheduled Russian 10-day maintenance of the crucial Nord Stream pipeline to Germany is slated to end - but which was thrown into deep doubt given Gazprom recently said it can no longer guarantee its "good functioning" due to crucial turbines being previously held up in Canada related to sanctions - the Russian energy giant has declared Force Majeure to one major European customer.
Simply put, Gazprom declared extraordinary and extreme circumstances to void itself from all contractual obligations to this customer, thus the gas will stop flowing indefinitely, as Reuters reports in a breaking development Monday
Germany's Energy Crisis About To Get Even Worse As Rhine Water Levels Plummet
What has already been a year from hell for Germany, which is suffering energy hyperinflation as a result of Europe's sanctions on Russia, and which is "facing the biggest crisis the country has every had" according to the president of the German employers association, is about to get even worse as the declining water level of the Rhine river, which has historically been a key infrastructure transit artery across Germany, continues to fall and as it does, the flow of commodities to inland Europe is starting to buckle threatening to make an already historic crisis even worse.
World must choose between action and ‘suicide’ – UN
Secretary-General Guterres delivered a climate change ultimatum to a Berlin conference
The world has a choice between “collective action and collective suicide” and must act immediately to address climate change, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday in a message to the Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin, Germany.
“Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rise and ocean heat have broken new records. Half of humanity is in the danger zone from floods, droughts, extreme storms and wildfires. No nation is immune,” Guterres said in a video message.
Prince Harry at the United Nations: "We are witnessing a global assault on democracy and freedom."
Family of British PM frontrunner Rishi Sunak reportedly runs a China-linked, World Economic Forum partner company pushing Digital ID and social credit scores.
London falling: Britain's military decline exposes NATO's collapse in credibility and capability
NATO’s plan to vastly increase its forward force is wishful thinking, and the UK’s struggle for military relevance is a perfect case in point
The secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, recently announced the US-led military bloc’s goal of expanding its so-called ‘Response Force’ from its current strength of 40,000 to a force of more than 300,000 troops. “We will enhance our battlegroups in the eastern part of the Alliance up to brigade-levels,” Stoltenberg declared. “We will transform the NATO Response Force and increase the number of our high readiness forces to well over 300,000.”
Questions arise about the United States’ ability to produce war materiel on “industrial” level after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
(Natural News) The ground war in Ukraine following Russia’s invasion has proven that “industrial-level” warfare is still very real and very plausible between great and even second-tier powers.
But what that conflict has also shown is the need for countries to have the manufacturing capacity to produce massive amounts of war materiel, and there are rising concerns that the United States, which became the “arsenal of democracy” during World War II because of our tremendous industrial might, is not at all prepared to repeat that “Greatest Generation” feat in 2022 should the need arise.
NATO is planning a massive military buildup
NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that the military alliance will increase the size of its rapid reaction forces nearly eightfold to 300,000 troops as part of its response to an "era of strategic competition."
The NATO response force currently has about 40,000 soldiers which can deploy quickly when needed.
Coupled with other measures including the deployment of forces to defend specific allies, Stoltenberg said the move is part of the "biggest overhaul of collective defence and deterrence since the Cold War."
California's Farmland Rapidly Turns To Dust Amid Water Crisis
As much of the Western US suffers from a historic drought, all eyes have shifted to Californian farmers as hundreds of thousands of acres become fallow in a state responsible for a tremendous amount of US food production.
Unprecedented cuts to water supplies are jeopardizing the future of growing for many farmers. Drought conditions are worsening, making it harder for farmers to irrigate crops.
More than 1 000 heat-related deaths reported in Spain and Portugal
The second heatwave to hit Europe since mid-June 2022 has claimed more than 1 000 lives over the past 8 days, with most of them in Portugal. Numerous high temperature records have been broken and more are expected to fall over the next few days.
According to Spanish Government’s Carlos III Health Insitute (ISCIII), 360 heat-related deaths were reported from Sunday, July 10 to Friday, July 15, 2022.
Bread for $10 Is the New $5 Gas as Demand Wanes for Basics
(Bloomberg) -- People really begin noticing inflation when it shows up in things that they regularly buy. That’s why gasoline and milk get so much attention. Add bread to a growing list of basics that are rising in price and crushing consumer sentiment.
Amid the highest US inflation in four decades, bread prices have soared this year, pushing more premium options to an unheard-of $10 a loaf and beyond.
“It’s kind of like a punch in the nose,” said Mark Cohen, director of retail studies at Columbia University. These are prices “nobody has seen before” and have the same impact as gasoline hitting $5 a gallon, he said.
Matt Hancock Squirms, Runs & Hides when asked for Evidence for Asymptomatic Transmission and that Lockdowns work
Matt Hancock, former UK Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, was confronted by Heiko Khoo on 12 July at the Royal Statistical Society, London. Khoo asked Hancock what evidence he based the narrative that asymptomatic transmission occurred and lockdowns slowed the spread of a virus:
“The entire principles you started the lockdowns with, the measures with, were based, effectively, on an unproven, at least that time, a totally unproven argument that asymptomatic infections were a significant factor driving transmission. And there was no evidence for that whatsoever.
Germany To Re-Impose Mask Mandate In September Despite COVID Wave Already "Losing Momentum"
Germany is set to re-impose its mask mandate in September despite the summer COVID wave already “losing momentum,” indicating such rules are being made permanent.
Justice Minister Marco Buschmann announced that Germans would have to mask up this autumn when indoors and that the rules would be in place throughout the winter.
Ludicrously, such measures are being finalized months in advance when nobody even knows what the COVID situation will be later in the year.
This is the New York health commissioner on camera admitting that she lied in order to push for a procedure that is particularly dangerous for young boys to take
mRNA COVID gene injection may have killed Canadian Chief of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Hannam
World Health Organization Constitution: Have You Actually Read It?
Look it up, read it, and see what exactly we have been signed onto without any sort of democratic mandate.
Sudden illness stops the show in Hungary (Sir Tom Jones), Madrid (Jane Birkin) and Dresden (Aida); top athletes have to quit the Tour de France and U.S. Open; and two close calls, in Israel & Turkey
New Lawsuit Finds That Skittles Causes Cancer in Humans
A new lawsuit against candy marker Mars claims that Skittles contains a “known toxin” that causes cancer when consumed by humans.
On Thursday, California resident Jenile Thames filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Attorneys for Thames said Skittles were unsafe for human consumption because they contain “heightened levels” of titanium dioxide.
Italian Judge Reinstates Unvaxxed Psychologist: Rules 'Experimental' Covid Injections 'Infiltrate and Alter DNA' (Video)
“After the experience of Nazi-Fascism,” one cannot “sacrifice the single individual for the collective interest.” – Judge Susanna Zanda
The Judge of the second section of the Civil Court of Florence, Susanna Zanda, signed an emergency decree on July 6th ordering the reinstatement of a psychologist who was suspended by the state board for not being “vaccinated.”
Top dance school scraps BALLET auditions branding it an 'elitist white art form' as woke institution plans to 'decolonise' curriculum and make it gender neutral
A top British dance school has dropped ballet from its auditions after branding it an 'elitist art form', built around 'white European ideas and body shapes'.
The Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) reviewed the dance as part of a wider plan to 'decolonise the curriculum', and consider the impact of race and gender on dance.
The Leeds-based school will no longer require ballet as part of its auditions, due to the cost of learning the dance style, its idealisation of particular body shapes and gender-divided roles, staff have said.
Man driving by burning home leaps into action, saves 5 sleeping children
LAFAYETTE, Ind. - An Indiana man was seriously injured after leaping into action to save five sleeping people — mostly children — from a burning home.
Police in Lafayette, Indiana, said 25-year-old Nicholas Bostic was driving around 12:30 a.m. on July 11 when he saw the home up in flames. He threw his car into reverse and pulled into the driveway. He told police he wasn’t able to call 911 and he "didn’t want to waste time trying to find someone who could."
This individual identifies as a cat and she and her fellow cat friends meow at each other to signal various things.
Back to my garden today. My refuge from an insane and evil world.
More evidence that a Godless society creates hell on earth. Bless the hero who saved the children from the burning house