UNITED NATIONS - Don’t look now, but we live in a world of trouble. From armed conflicts to geo-political disputes, coronavirus pandemic flare-ups to looming climate catastrophes, problems lie everywhere – which is why UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says his globalist body can be trusted to rise to the challenges ahead. Guterres said in an interview with the Associated Press the appeal for peace and harmony he issued on his first day in the UN’s top job on January 1, 2017 and his priorities in his first term of trying to prevent conflicts and tackle global inequalities, the coronavirus crisis and a warming planet remain the same. In fact the veteran Portuguese Socialist politician and diplomat believes the world needs the UN now more than ever. “The secretary-general of the UN has no power,” Guterres conceded. “We can have influence. I can persuade. I can mediate, but I have no power.”

USA - As a result of his insane move to kill the Keystone XL pipeline, Biden is now importing a record amount of oil from Russia. We all knew this would happen. Really, why would Biden do this? Energynow.com reports: One year since President Joe Biden cancelled approval for the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada, and the United States’ thirst for oil is as strong as ever and rising. US oil imports from Saudi Arabia and Russia have increased, and gasoline prices are higher than they have been in the last five years. As a result of Biden’s energy policies, gasoline in the US is nearly twice as much as a year ago. Did Biden do this for money or blackmail? It looks like he is the real ‘Putin Puppet.’ Democrats called President Trump this, but then again, they always project their sins on others.

USA - Texas abortion providers and advocates were dealt another setback on Thursday when the Supreme Court rejected their request for a federal judge to accelerate the legal challenge to the Lone Star State’s six-week abortion ban. Abortion advocates likewise decried the ruling on Thursday, charging that the women of Texas have been stripped of their constitutional rights. “Once again the Supreme Court has betrayed the people of Texas, who have been callously stripped of their constitutional right to abortion for more than four months now,” Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson said in a press release. “By enabling the state’s obvious ploy to delay any resolution to this case, this Court is complicit in the widespread harm to Texans who remain unable to make meaningful decisions about their own bodies,” she continued.

USA - The State Department has ordered families of US Embassy personnel in Ukraine to begin evacuating the country as soon as Monday, US officials tell Fox News. Next week, the State Department is also expected to encourage Americans to begin leaving Ukraine by commercial flights, "while those are still available," one official said. Moscow has massed tens of thousands of troops at the border with Ukraine, leading to fears of an invasion. Late Friday night, the US Embassy in Ukraine announced the first shipment of ammunition had arrived as directed by President Biden. US officials say small arms ammunition constitute the bulk of the 200,000 pounds of what the State Department is calling lethal aid – needed by Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines. US officials also tell Fox that Javelin anti-tank missiles are expected to arrive early next week from the Baltic states and from US military stockpiles.

SWITZERLAND - The people of the world just aren’t buying into the world elites and their sophisticated plans for world domination. Citizen Free Press reported on the world elites attending the World Economic Forum and their shock that the world doesn’t like them. Dinesh D’Souza shared with Laura Ingraham on FOX News Wednesday night on ‘The Ingraham Angle’ that the elites and political leaders need to realize the population is not paying attention to these aristocrats. Maybe it’s more than that. Italian Archbishop Vigano is very outspoken on the world elites and their destruction of the very foundations of the rule of law. He also offers hope, knowing that those who stand and resist the New World Order will have the help and protection of God. The people of the world aren’t fools. They just don’t like world elites like world elites do.

USA - The US is approaching the end of a “superbubble” spanning across stocks, bonds, real estate and commodities following massive stimulus during the COVID pandemic, potentially leading to the largest markdown of wealth in its history once pessimism returns to rule markets, according to legendary investor Jeremy Grantham. “For the first time in the US we have simultaneous bubbles across all major asset classes,” said Grantham, co-founder of investment firm GMO, in a paper Thursday. He estimated wealth losses could total $35 trillion in the US should valuations across major asset classes return two-thirds of the way to historical norms.

USA – The Wall Street Journal reports: From South America’s avocado, corn and coffee farms to Southeast Asia’s plantations of coconuts and oil palms, high fertilizer prices are weighing on farmers across the developing world, making it much costlier to cultivate and forcing many to cut back on production. That means grocery bills could go up even more in 2022, following a year in which global food prices rose to decade highs. An uptick would exacerbate hunger—already acute in some parts of the world because of pandemic-linked job losses—and thwart efforts by politicians and central bankers to subdue inflation.

CHINA - China’s dispute with Lithuania over its recognition of Taiwan attracted a lot of headlines in 2021, and it will surprise few that the repercussions are still rumbling on into the new year. In retaliation for the opening of a “Taiwan representative office” in Vilnius, China has not only downgraded its diplomatic ties with the Baltic country, but has also imposed an unofficial trade embargo in the form of secondary sanctions. Not only is Beijing directly blocking exports to it, but it is also demanding European countries in the Chinese market refrain from supplying to the Baltic country. Very simply, these revelations illustrate that China is effectively winning its dispute with Lithuania and that its economic power is compelling others to demand Vilnius change course. The suggestion that Washington is now urging it to back down should be a sufficient warning. Beijing is humiliating Lithuania, while firmly demonstrating its economic strength...

INDIA - India and Germany are opening a new chapter in their defence and security ties as Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla held maritime security cooperation talks with Germany’s navy chief Kay-Achim Schönbach, and a German frigate entered Indian waters for a rare port call. The developments, seen as a major signal to China, come as Germany strengthens its own Indo-Pacific policy and Berlin identifies New Delhi as one of its key partners in the Indo-Pacific strategic framework. Germany was the second European country after France to unveil its own Indo-Pacific policy in 2020. The German frigate — Bayern — arrived in Indian waters Thursday and will be docked at the Mumbai Port Friday, in a move that’s expected to open a new chapter in India-Germany defence and security ties, sources told ThePrint.

USA - Virginia Democrats are fighting not only to keep sexually explicit materials in public schools but also to kill a bill that would require school boards to notify parents of sexually explicit materials being introduced. Maintaining the ideology behind former Democrat Governor Terry McAuliffe’s campaign-ending gaffe saying, “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach,” Virginia Senate President Louise Lucas (Democrat) said, “when it comes to what’s in the curriculum, that should be left to the school boards and to the boards of education. And if a parent wants to opt out, I think they should have the right to do that.” Democrats in Richmond, however, appear steadfast in their defense of these books and their denial of the ability for parents to review the material before being shown to their children.