GERMANY - Germany has launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump, blaming his stiff import tariffs for destroying the EU’s largest economy, adding Europe would not bow to US pressure regarding Iran. The US President has triggered a bitter trade war with the likes of Europe, China and Canada by imposing huge import tariffs on a number of goods, including steel and aluminium.

ITALY - Italy’s euroscepticism could make the country sink like the Titanic and investors should prepare for the worst, according to new reports drafted by three of the world’s biggest investment banks.

Financial experts from Citi, Barclays and Credit Suisse agree Rome is nearing a new economic crisis that could bring the country to its knees. The main ingredients would be the country’s new euroscepticism, the reforms promised by its populist government and Rome’s long-standing financial weaknesses. The paper, drafted by Citi, drew a worrying comparison between the tragedy of the Titanic and the economic and political situation in Rome. It said: “Investors should keep in mind that in the sinking of the Titanic the fate of first-class passengers was not very different from that of those traveling in the third class.” 

USA - No matter how globalism is repackaged, it always smells the same way in the end. For decades, the globalists have subtly (or sometimes not so subtly) been moving us toward a world in which national borders have essentially been made meaningless. The ultimate goal, of course, is to merge all the nations of the world into a “one world socialist utopia” with a global government, a global economic system and even a global religion.

UK - Ten people, including two children, have been hospitalised after gunshots were fired in Manchester on Sunday morning, as the multicultural city celebrates its ‘Caribbean Carnival’. Armed officers were called to Claremont Road, Moss Side at 2:30 am on Sunday and found a number of people suffering injuries which ranged from minor to major. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said large groups of people had been brought to the area after parties following the opening day of the city’s annual Carnival, described as a “vibrant celebration” which promised to bring “Caribbean culture to the forefront” over the weekend. Moss Side was more recently believed to be the base of more than a dozen young Islamists who travelled abroad to fight with jihadi groups... gun crime surged 11 per cent in the last year, with experts warning illegal weapons are “easy” to buy from a black market.

AFRICA - Research findings say that in the world today, there are more displaced persons than any other point in history. This displacement has been brought about by various reasons such as civil and political strife, persecutions either religious or political, environmental disasters, conflict and economic strain.

SWITZERLAND - Previous research has found evidence that it can change our brainwaves: a new study co-authored by Röösli has found a link between mobile phone use and adverse effects on young people's memory retention. Swiss researchers studied 700 adolescents aged between 12 and 17; tracking their phone habits and getting them to complete memory tests.

VATICAN - The Catholic Church is estimated to hold an incredible 71.6 million hectares of land in its bulging real estate portfolio, an area larger than France. Needless to say, the Holy See is the largest non-government landowner in the world, with vast swathes of land in countries from Germany to India.

USA - Six large new wildfires erupted in the United States, pushing the number of major active blazes nationwide to over 100, with more expected to break out sparked by lightning strikes on bone-dry terrain, authorities said on Saturday. More than 30,000 personnel, including firefighters from across the United States and nearly 140 from Australia and New Zealand, were battling the blazes that have consumed more than 1.6 million acres (648,000 hectares), according to the National Interagency Coordination Center.

USA - The Oxford Dictionaries defines “norm” as something that is usual, typical, or standard. To “normalize” some deviant thing or behavior, therefore, is to make that object or behavior a “norm” — that is, making it acceptable by having the public perceive it as usual, typical, standard, and humdrum ordinary. America has already surrendered to sodomy and “transgenderism” (a biological impossibility). What is underway now is the normalization of evil — of deviant predilection and behaviors like pedophilia, bestiality, cannibalism, and Satanism. This post is about the continuing efforts to normalize Satanism and Satanists via: The installation of a satanic statue in the state capitol of Arkansas, and a satanic group adopting a stretch of highway in Indiana.

VATICAN - With revelation after revelation, a new wave of sexual abuse scandals is rocking the Roman Catholic Church and presenting Pope Francis with the greatest crisis of his papacy. In Chile, prosecutors have raided church offices, seized documents and accused leaders of a coverup. In Australia, top church figures are facing detention and trials. And in the United States, after the resignation of a cardinal, questions are swirling about a hierarchy that looked the other way and protected him for years.

GERMANY - Washington cannot dictate trade rules to others, Germany’s Economy Minister said, adding that his country should be more assertive and defy American sanctions – particularly by investing more in Iran. “We don’t let Washington dictate [their will] on trade relations with other countries,” German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier told Bild newspaper on Saturday. He said the US sanctions on Iran are one instance in which America’s neglect of its partners are clearly shown.

GERMANY - A member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has penned a column telling Germans they should not be worried about becoming minorities in their cities. CDU politician Barbara John has claimed “it is only a matter of time before people with a migration background make up the majority of the population in larger cities,” and that Germans should not be worried, in a column the 80-year-old penned for German paper Tagesspiegel this week. Last year, Frankfurt became the first city in Germany in which native Germans are a minority and almost all the recent population growth in the country has been shown to have been driven by mass migration.

GERMANY - Germany's government has said it confiscated firearms from hundreds of members of the Reichsbürger scene. Authorities have identified some 2,000 more people who identify with Germany's most idiosyncratic far-right group. The head of Germany's domestic security agency on Saturday hailed efforts to disarm members of the far-right Reichsbürger scene and other groups who reject the German state, but warned the group's threat level still remains critically high. The radical Reichsbürger movement ("Citizens of the Reich") subscribes to the idea that the 1937 borders of the German Empire still exist and that the modern-day Federal Republic is effectively a puppet state still occupied by the Allied powers. Members refuse to recognize the German Basic Law, the government, police authorities and the courts, while some are also anti-Semitic.

GERMANY - Berlin may be toying with the idea of embracing its nuclear ambitions, but doing so would jeopardize the delicate balance of power in Europe, writes a security policy expert. As in a game of chess, there are geopolitical moves through which a country can – unwittingly – checkmate itself. Opening a debate on German nuclear weapons would be such a move. Yet this is exactly what some Germans have recently proposed. Supporters of a nuclear-armed Germany contend that NATO’s nuclear umbrella has lost all credibility because of statements made by US President Donald Trump.

USA - So many top professionals in the financial industry are sounding the alarm about a coming stock market crash right now.  And there certainly have been rumblings in 2018 – not too long ago we had a three day stretch that was called “the tech bloodbath”, and during that time Facebook had the worst day for a single company in stock market history.  But we haven’t seen the really big “crash” yet.