From Politico:
“Nearly three dozen House Democrats on Monday called on Biden to relinquish his sole authority to launch nuclear weapons, in the latest appeal to reform the command-and-control structure so that no single person can initiate a nuclear war.” “While any president would presumably consult with advisors before ordering a nuclear attack, there is no requirement to do so,” the letter adds. “The military is obligated to carry out the order if they assess it is legal under the laws of war. Under the current posture of US nuclear forces, that attack would happen in minutes.”

Our imperative as researchers and technologists is to create and refine technical and sociotechnical approaches to this grand challenge of our time. We’re excited about methods for certifying the origin and provenance of online content. It’s an honor to work alongside Adobe, BBC and other C2PA members to take this critical work to the next step,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post announcing the coalition.

According to Microsoft, the C2PA will “develop content provenance specifications for common asset types and formats to enable publishers, creators and consumers to trace the origin and evolution of a piece of media, including images, videos, audio and documents.” Former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has been a big supporter of modern moves to censor more on social media.

At this juncture, everyone should be able to see that the clock is ticking for our planet, and in this article I am going to share several examples that underscore this point. First of all, according to a new report that was just released this week, one-third of all freshwater fish species on the entire planet are now facing extinction…

Nearly a third of all freshwater fish species are threatened by extinction, according to a new report released by 16 conservation groups on Tuesday. “The World’s Forgotten Fishes” says that 80 freshwater species — which make up more than half of all the world’s species — have already been declared extinct, with 16 disappearing in 2020 alone. This is yet another factor that is going to cause the coming “global famine” that I keep talking about.

Meanwhile, we are losing insect species at a staggering rate as well. In fact, one report found that a whopping 40 percent of all insect species are on the verge of extinction… Once all of the insects are gone, humanity will soon follow. So this is something that we cannot afford to ignore.

Even the human race itself is in decline… male sperm counts have dropped by more than 50 percent since 1973. We have almost reached a point where the average human male is in a sperm count range that makes it difficult to have children, and this problem continues to intensify with each passing year. The decline in human fertility has been particularly dramatic in the western world, and birth rates in some western nations have already dropped below replacement level.

So not only is the clock ticking for our planet, but it is also ticking for humanity itself. Those that are trying to convince you that the human race is about to enter a new “golden age” are not telling you the truth. Unfortunately, most people can’t see the big picture because they are being willingly deceived by liars that are telling them whatever they want to hear.

By going down the road of hyperinflation, we are systematically destroying the value of the reserve currency of the world, we are piling up trillions of dollars of debt that future generations would never possibly be able to repay, and we are setting the stage for the inevitable meltdown of our current financial system. In other words, we are literally committing national suicide.

Following World War I, they did the exact same thing in Germany. The Weimar Republic created money like there was no tomorrow, and at first it fueled a tremendous speculative boom. Just a couple days ago, Michael Burry posted about this on his Twitter account… “Speculation alone, while adding nothing to Germany’s wealth, became one of its largest activities. The fever to join in turning a quick mark infected nearly all classes. Everyone from the elevator operator up was playing the market.” But that bubble didn’t last, did it?

Germany plunged into a horrific economic depression that shocked the entire world. Eventually, people were running around with wheelbarrows full of cash to pay for things, but nobody wanted the money because it was so worthless. And of course the collapse of the Weimar Republic set the stage for World War II. So why do we refuse to learn from history?

Sadly, it isn’t just the US that is going down a hyperinflationary path. Governments all over the globe have been printing, borrowing and spending money at unprecedented levels, and now the ratio of the world’s debt to GDP has reached a staggering 356 percent… We all know how this story ends. It ends with an absolutely nightmarish global economic collapse.

The synergy between Washington and Silicon Valley can be seen as the latest manifestation of the Beltway’s revolving door. But the size and scope of Big Tech – and the increasing dependence of government on its products and talent – suggest something more: the rise of a Digital-Intelligence Complex. Like the Military-Industrial Complex that President Dwight D Eisenhower warned against in 1961, it represents a symbiotic relationship in which the lines between one and the other are blurred.

The web services side of Amazon is believed to be the most profitable part of the mammoth company. Illustrating the pride of place AWS enjoys within Amazon, Jeff Bezos recently announced he is stepping aside from his role as CEO, making room for Andy Jassy, who has been in charge of the AWS subsidiary. It’s also a prime reason Amazon chose the DC suburbs for the company’s new HQ2: “The DC tech sector is one of the fastest growing in the world,” Teresa Carlson, AWS vice president for Worldwide Public Sector and Industries, told Washington Life magazine last year. That growth is “largely driven by big US government projects,” she added.

The council is designed to enlist corporations in the advancement of “UN Sustainable Development Goals,” reports Politico, which quotes Rothschild as saying: “God didn’t create the corporation. The corporation is an invention by society to give limited liability to shareholders. But why should society give that if the shareholders mistreat workers, or poison customers or degrade the planet?”

The group’s press release says, “Under the moral guidance of Pope Francis and Cardinal Peter Turkson, who leads the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development at the Vatican, and inspired by the moral imperative of all faiths, the Council invites companies of all sizes to harness the potential of the private sector to build a fairer, more inclusive, and sustainable economic foundation for the world.”

Among the “guardians” for the pope’s new council are Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. Those two foundations are notorious for championing abortion and population control, among other anti-Catholic stances. Shah is a former Obama administration staffer. Walker has joked to the New York Times about himself, “Henry Ford never imagined that a black gay man would be president of this foundation, but that’s what’s great about American philanthropy, that it continues to evolve.”

“Mark Zuckerberg said to me today [restoring pages] will occur in coming days,” Frydenberg said, the ABC reports. Frydenberg added Australia had been a “proxy battle” for the rest of the world on the regulation of Google and Facebook. “I have no doubt that so many other countries are looking at what is happening here in Australia, because of this innovative code the Morrison government is now pursuing, so Facebook and Google have not hidden the fact that they know that the eyes of the world are on Australia, and that is why they have sought to get a code here that is workable,” he said.

The result was immediately applauded across the Australian media landscape and in government circles: Facebook initially argued it had been forced to block Australian news in response to the proposed legislation, objecting to having to negotiate and set up a “fairer” negotiation process between the tech giants and news companies over the value of news content. Morrison very quickly made clear his conservative coaliton government would set the terms and Facebook would have to comply as part of the long-running dispute.

As both sides prepare to intensify pressure on Russia and China, Merkel asserted on Friday that Germany still wants to "offer cooperation" to Russia, for example in reference to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, rejected by the USA, also under the new president. Similar disagreements are becoming apparent in their approach to China: Business with China is considered indispensable for numerous German companies.

Despite the EU's insistence, Washington has not even rescinded Trump's punitive tariffs and is intensifying the "Buy American Act" very much to the Union's resentment. Last Thursday, European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis confirmed that Brussels will make an "in-depth assessment," if Biden's "Buy American" practices comply with WTO rules. And on Friday, Peter Beyer, Berlin's Coordinator of Transatlantic Cooperation, demanded that "the time for punitive tariffs must come to an end." "I expect that the speed will be really set here soon." The easing of tensions, however, is not yet in sight.

“The FBI has reportedly opened more than 400 criminal cases and applied for more than 500 search warrants and subpoenas for suspects; it has also brought charges against and detained around 200 people. Only several dozen defendants have been released on bail or placed under house arrest. The others are being subjected to harsh pressure, with members of their family and social circle being coerced into giving a ‘convenient’ testimony. Moreover, people who have not even been officially charged are losing their jobs; they are being banned from social media and publicly ostracised.”

She went on to correctly note that far from being violent rioters, most of the attendees of the January 6 rally were peaceful protesters. “In fact, the majority of those people were ordinary citizens concerned about the situation in their own country,” she said. “These were 74 million voters who voted for their president and defended their views.” She warned that the administration’s crackdown would not solve the widespread discontent towards Biden’s rule:

“Their protest will not just go away. You cannot just sweep discontent under the rug. Even the rhetoric that the United States allows itself to use with respect to Russia will not help distract public attention from the country’s own problems. They will have to be dealt with. US citizens deserve to be treated according to the law and in line with Washington’s international obligations.” Accordingly, she then called on the United States to respect the “basic human rights” of Trump supporters.