USA - Nothing screams “Halloween!” like Disney giving kids the chance to explore ‘gender fluidity’ with ‘queer role models.’ This begs the question: where do we draw the line between corporate virtue signaling and pedophilia? This week, it was revealed that Disney is hosting a drag-queen story hour for the children of its employees. The virtual Halloween-themed event will capture “the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood,” while giving impressionable youngsters “glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models,” according to Disney emails seen by Breitbart News.

USA - A Florida school board member received backlash this week after she took an elementary school class on a field trip to a gay bar with suggestive menu items. Broward school board member Sarah Leonardi posted photos of the school trip on Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday which showed the masked children sitting inside the rainbow-themed bar. “I was SO honored to be invited to chaperone Wilton Manors Elementary’s field trip to the incredible Rosie’s! The students and I had a fun walk over and learned a lot about our community!” Leonardi wrote, before thanking the bar “for hosting this special field trip every year” – an indication that it was not the first time such a trip took place. Leonardi’s post angered many people on social media, who questioned why children were being taken to an adult, alcohol-oriented venue for a school trip instead of a more appropriate location like a museum or the zoo.

USA - International Man: Western countries are leading the charge in restructuring their economies around the issue of climate change. They’re committed to a comprehensive agenda to “decarbonize” their economies by 2050. What’s your take on this? Doug Casey: To sum it up in one word, it’s insane. In two words, it’s criminally insane.

UK - COP26 (Conference of the Parties) will see the world's most influential politicians gather in Glasgow this year, where they will join forces in a bid to solve the snowballing climate crisis. What does COP26 stand for, and what are the four aims of the conference? Approximately 30,000 delegates will attend the COP26 conference next week, alongside leaders from some of the world's richest nations. Those delegates represent businesses, NGOs, faith groups and much more. Their conversations over the next two weeks could determine the future of the planet.

SWITZERLAND - The Great Reset is just the latest instalment of the grand agenda to completely reorder global society by the end of the 21st century. Prior to the Great Reset for instance, the United Nations (UN) Agenda 21 was adopted by 178 governments in Rio in 1992, taking the form of a “comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which humanity impacts on the environment.”

SWITZERLAND - The wealthy elite travel to the World Economic Forum’s annual meetings via a “steady stream” of private planes and helicopters to discuss issues like global sustainability. By 2050, it’s estimated that aviation will contribute 22% of global carbon emissions; still, in 2019, more than 600 private planes arrived at the Davos Forum, and that doesn’t include the military planes that transported an additional 60 presidents and prime ministers. Jet-setters are carbon super-emitters; the idea that the elite can continue to pollute but simply purchase carbon credits to “offset” their pollution is a matter of smoke and mirrors.

UK - The great ecological delusion: Costly heat pumps that barely work, electric cars recharged by diesel generators... but what if the cash spent on flawed schemes went on new green tech that REALLY worked? Today, 120 world leaders and 30,000 delegates will start arriving in Glasgow for the Cop26 climate change conference. Watching from afar will be Bjorn Lomborg, the former Greenpeace activist who, in his acclaimed 2001 book The Skeptical Environmentalist, concluded that the costly measures being dreamed up by politicians, scientists and businessmen have proved next to useless.

VATICAN - In a message recorded exclusively for the BBC, Pope Francis has called on world leaders meeting next week at the UN Climate conference in Glasgow to provide "effective responses" to the environment emergency and offer "concrete hope" to future generations. Speaking from the Vatican for BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day, the Pope talked of crises including the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change and economic difficulties, and urged the world to respond to them with vision and radical decisions, so as not to "waste opportunities" that the current challenges present. "We can confront these crises by retreating into isolationism, protectionism and exploitation," the pontiff said, "or we can see in them a real chance for change."

CHINA - Communist China’s contribution to the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, was an emissions “pledge” that proposed increasing China’s pollution output over the next few years. Chinese dictator Xi Jinping still claims his country will somehow reverse these trends in a very short period of time and become “carbon neutral” before 2060.

USA - Facebook has taken the decision to change its company name to Meta. The change comes after Facebook faced a blackout for a number of hours just a few weeks ago. Facebook was not the only social media site that went down at the start of this month. Their associated sites, Instagram and WhatsApp, also went down for a number of hours as users could not access their accounts. Speaking about the change to being called Meta, Mark Zuckerberg said: "Today we are seen as a social media company. "But in our DNA we are a company that builds technology to connect people." A tweet from the Facebook Newsroom read: "Today we're introducing Meta, which brings together our apps and technologies under a new company brand. "Learn more about how we’re helping build the metaverse and other news from Connect."

SWITZERLAND - On the first day of his visit, the NATO Deputy Secretary General [Mircea Geoană] met with high-level officials from international organisations and other relevant international stakeholders, including Mr Houlin Zhao, Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union, Ms Olga Algayerova, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, and Mr Borge Brenda, President of the World Economic Forum. These meetings support NATO 2030 agenda and decisions to broaden and strengthen NATO’s relations with like-minded partners, including international organisations. In his engagements, the Deputy Secretary General reaffirmed NATO’s commitment to the international rules-based order.

VATICAN - Joe Biden has arrived in Rome ahead of the G20 summit this weekend, flying out late Thursday after delaying his flight due to wrangling on Capitol Hill over his $1.75 trillion health and social care spending package. The President landed in the early hours of Friday morning alongside wife Jill, ahead of a meeting with Pope Francis before world leaders sit down for two days of negotiations due to begin on Saturday.

UK - COP26 is set to end in failure with experts saying that participating countries will not agree on sufficient cut to emissions, while Russia and China fail to show up at all. The climate change event, which begins this Saturday, is billed as an attempt to "keep 1.5 alive" - the target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. But Oliver Geden, an expert in the political economy of climate change at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, told POLITICO: "It's currently not plausible that this will happen because you don't even have the early signs that the big players want to do that.”

UK - COP climate talks were always going to be difficult: 200 countries in search of a plan to prevent catastrophic warming of the planet with time running out fast. The backdrop of terrifying weather events had brought a renewed sense of urgency to the matter. Then, the energy crisis struck, leaving Asia and Europe scrambling for fossil fuels, forcing China to double down on coal, and giving climate laggards another excuse not to engage. In the US, President Joe Biden’s green ambitions have gotten bogged down in domestic politics, undermining his credibility as he tries to push others to curb their emissions.