USA - Florida lawmakers are now pushing a totalitarian medical police state law that would deny a public education to children who aren’t injected with the extremely toxic and risky HPV vaccine. SB 1551, also being deceptively called the “Women’s Cancer Prevention Act,” mandates HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccines in school-aged children, revoking medical choice rights from parents and invoking state-sponsored coercion to force children to be subjected to extremely risky medical interventions, even against the wishes of their parents. The HPV vaccine has been known to cause some of the worst adverse side effects.

VATICAN - The Holocaust was fueled by hate but was made possible by indifference, Pope Francis said Monday in an address at the Vatican. Speaking before participants in a conference on the responsibility of States, institutions and individuals in the struggle against anti-Semitism and crimes associated with anti-Semitic hatred, the pope underscored the wider complicity of a society that sometimes turns a blind eye to the evils being perpetrated around us. The enemy against which we fight “is not only hatred in all of its forms,” Francis said, “but even more fundamentally, indifference; for it is indifference that paralyzes and impedes us from doing what is right even when we know that it is right.”

NORTH KOREA - North Korea suddenly canceled an upcoming joint “cultural event” with South Korea on Monday while complaining about “biased” and “insulting” South Korean media coverage. The cancellation marks a significant setback in the highly touted “thawing” of relations with the outlaw Communist nation. Many observers both inside and beyond South Korea have been worried that the North’s sudden overtures ahead of the Winter Olympics are merely a delaying tactic, or worse, an effort to fracture the international coalition aligned against its nuclear weapons program by pretending it is willing to talk.

SAUDI ARABIA - A rare snowstorm has swept in to the Saudi Arabian desert turning the sand white as the Middle East is hit by a freak Polar blast. Incredible photos show the Tabuk region in the north west, known for its blazing heat, covered in a blanket of snow as temperatures plummeted below freezing. The freak weather is totally unexpected with temperatures normally hitting around 20C, traditionally the cold season in the Arab country.  Snow also fell in Syria, Iran and Lebanon, with some areas buried under 4 feet. 

USA - When we look at the stock market, we are witnessing an unprecedented move. They continue to rise further and further without stepping back. We are in a new phase of euphoria. There is a constant repeated message of “this time is different”. Funny that we tend to hear that right before the end.

IRELAND - Despite the “choice” rhetoric of abortion advocates, the unborn child has no voice and no choice and is at the mercy of what adults choose to do to him or her, said Irish bishop Kevin Doran in a pastoral letter released this week.

GERMANY - Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Friday for a quick end to the last stretch of tortuous negotiations to forge a government for Germany, in a race against time to stop her power slipping away at home and abroad. As she arrived for the final round of talks with potential partners in her fourth government, the Social Democrats (SPD), she said the country and Europe could not afford to wait much longer. "We will see to it that we negotiate quickly," Merkel told reporters. However the outcome of the talks gathering the SPD as well as Merkel's CDU party and Bavarian CSU allies is far from certain. The SPD is torn internally on whether it should once again govern under Merkel.

USA - On Monday, in an “NBC News exclusive,” anchorman Lester Holt effusively praised the tyrannical communist government of North Korea while reporting from a ski resort teeming with people. Holt told the Today Show audience that “we have been treated with respect here” and that the “busy” and “very modern” ski resort was a “source of immense pride for a country trying to present a new and modern face to the world.”

SOUTH KOREA - The mainstream US media, when it comes to the idea of talks between the governments of North and South Korea, are focused on the idea that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is trying to drive a wedge between the Republic of Korea and the United States. No doubt that is true, but this focus misses a major part of the story.

SOUTH AFRICA - Two strong earthquakes measuring magnitudes of 6.5 and 5.0 have struck the same region of the Atlantic Ocean, sparking assurances a tsunami is not expected. The two earthquakes struck in the same region of the ocean around 1300 miles from the southern coast of South Africa. The first struck at 2.03pm GMT and registered 6.5. 

PHILIPPINES - The Philippines is bracing for a possible three-month-long emergency in areas around an erupting volcano, which has already displaced more than 81,000 and led to overcrowded temporary shelters, the disaster agency said on Friday. Mount Mayon in central Albay province remained at alert level 4, a notch below the highest level, as it continued to spew lava, ash and other superheated material, volcanologists said. "We're gearing up for three months" of emergency, said Romina Marasigan, spokeswoman of the country's disaster agency, citing similar situations during previous eruptions of the 2,462-metre (8,077-foot) volcano.

SWITZERLAND - Donald Trump has slammed Theresa May’s approach to the Brexit talks, saying he would have taken a tougher line, as he blasted the European Union and threatened Brussels with a trade war during an interview with Piers Morgan. The US President said he was hopeful of securing a “great” trade deal with the UK when it leaves the bloc but appeared to question the stance Mrs May had taken over Brexit.

SWITZERLAND - President Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday, urging the global elites to reinvest in their people. “Each of you has the power to change hearts, transform lives, and shape your countries’ destinies,” he said. “With this power comes an obligation, however, a duty of loyalty to the people, workers, customers who have made you who you are.”

ISRAEL - Netanyahu was interviewed by CNN's Fareed Zakaria on the main Davos stage on Thursday, saying: "Under any peace agreement the capital of Israel will continue to be in Jerusalem." Netanyahu reiterated that the seat of Israeli government is in Israel, and that Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish people for 3000 years. Donald Trump did "a great service for peace, because peace can only be based on truth. You can't build peace on fantasy," the PM said. When asked whether there wasn't anything to be said for the Arabs' historical connection to Jerusalem, Netanyahu stated that "Israel's position is that Jerusalem should remain united under Israeli sovereignty with complete freedom for everyone to practice their faiths as they choose."

SWITZERLAND - Going off the script in remarks to the press Thursday in Davos, President Trump announced that the US will no longer provide any monetary aid to the Palestinians in any form, unless the Palestinian leadership agrees to enter peace talks with Israel. Trump… is presenting the Jerusalem declaration as making things simpler, in that Jerusalem is now “off the table,” and that reduced the amount of important issues yet to be resolved. US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley also issued a statement condemning Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying that he lacks the “courage” to seek a lasting peace with Israel.