Ipsos survey for Halifax International Security Forum finds 73% of people, on average, across 33 countries expect in the next 25 years we could see another world conflict involving superpowers similar to World Wars I & II. | The invasion of Ukraine seems to have global citizens feeling on edge. As new Ipsos polling conducted on behalf of the Halifax International Security Forum finds almost three in four (73%) agree we could see a worldwide conflict like last century’s major military confrontations. ● Of the more than 32,000 people surveyed, an average of 73% somewhat/strongly agree with the statement: “I expect in the next 25 years we could see another world conflict involving superpowers similar to World Wars 1 & 2”, up 10 percentage points since last year. Australia (+8 points to 81%), Ireland (80%, new this year), Mexico (+8 pts to 80%) and Peru (+3 pts to 80%) are the countries where people are most concerned with worldwide conflict breaking out. Concern rose significantly, but is lowest in Japan (+16 pts to 51%), Sweden (+11 pts to 60%), Germany (+17 pts to 63%) and Indonesia (63%, new).

Officials in Australia are raising the alarm as the country’s excess deaths have soared to an “incredibly high” rate. | Australia’s peak actuarial body is calling on the government to urgently investigate the country’s spike in deaths this year. An analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data by the Actuaries Institute shows a 13 percent rise in deaths during 2022. The data revealed that an additional 15,400 people died in the first eight months of the year alone. The deaths were listed as non-COVID-19 fatalities. However, one-third of those extra deaths are people who have never contracted Covid, Actuaries confirmed. ● Deaths from diseases other than COVID-19 represented nearly half of all deaths that otherwise would have been expected for the first four months of the year, according to AFR. 💬 13% is an “incredibly high number for mortality,” and it is “not clear” what is driving the increase, said Karen Cutter, spokeswoman for the institute’s COVID-19 Mortality Working Group. “Mortality doesn’t normally vary by more than 1 to 2%, so 13% is way higher than normal levels,” she said. “I’m not aware [of anything comparable] in the recent past but I haven’t gone back and looked [historically].

American Buddhist Net | Not a word about the covid vax. Kelly proves he is a fool with his ridiculous nonsense. If you place just the word injury in the ABN search box, you will get many results that show how dangerous the vaxxes are. Searching just death will provide even more startling results. This is just a small website and those two words by no means yield all the information on vax deaths. How can Australia’s Chief Medical Officer dissemble like this? He cannot be so obtuse he does not even know the most likely reason for the high death rates occurring not just in Australia but throughout countries that used mRNA vaxxes is the mRNA vaxxes. If you want even more information on vax deaths search this site’s medical science tab. I would send that link to Kelly myself but know that anonymity will soon be verboten in Australia. Australia’s covid response and Kelly’s pathetic medical “reasoning” are perfect examples of why anonymous free speech is imperative for a developed civilization.

Brussels’ top diplomat says the military-industrial complex needs more investments to continue arming Ukraine| EU members must pour more resources into boosting their military capabilities to ensure the flow of weapons will continue “until Ukraine prevails” over Russia, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has said. He acknowledged that insufficient preparation has led to member states’ stockpiles becoming depleted. 💬 “We have given weapons to Ukraine, but in so doing, we realized that our military stockpiles have been depleted,” he wrote in a blog post on Sunday. “And we should be able to do this as long as necessary, until Ukraine prevails.” The situation “has been a wake-up call for all of us about our military capabilities,” he said, reiterating his assessment from the previous week that the EU is “lacking critical defense capabilities.” While acknowledging that “you do not fight wars with bank notes,” and that “there is a long way between allocating money and developing physical and human operational capabilities,” Borrell praised the fact that the EU’s spending on defense surpassed the €200 billion-level in 2021 for the first time.

The US and others have nudged Ukraine to violate the Belarusian border, a top military commander in Minsk claims | Western nations supporting Kiev are using its troops to provoke Belarus into a response that they can later condemn, the country’s top military commander has claimed. Ukraine used similar tactics when it fired a missile into Polish territory, he added. ● Suspicion is growing stronger every day in Belarus 💬 “that Western powers are trying to provoke us into some action which they could interpret in a way beneficial to them. But naturally, they are using the Ukrainian armed forces to the maximum,” General Viktor Gulevich, the head of the Belarusian General Staff, said in a TV interview aired on Sunday.

Peru authorities confirmed two deaths during ongoing protests demanding fresh elections and the resignation of new President Dina Boluarte, as thousands of demonstrators were reported on streets across the country Sunday. | The latest: Boluarte responded to the calls by announcing in a televised address a proposal for Congress to bring forward the next general elections to April 2024, per AP. 💬 "My duty as president of the republic in the current difficult time is to interpret, read and collect the aspirations, interests and concerns, if not of all, of the vast majority of Peruvians," Boluarte said, according to AP. "So, interpreting in the broadest way the will of the citizens... I have decided to assume the initiative to reach an agreement with the congress of the republic to advance the general elections." Context: The 60-year-old former vice president was sworn in last Wednesday until 2026 — when the presidency of her impeached predecessor, Pedro Castillo, was due to end. The big picture: AP reports police and protesters clashed in Lima as hundreds demonstrated there, with many calling for the release of Castillo, who was arrested on charges of rebellion after he said he was dissolving Congress ahead of his impeachment vote. There have been tense scenes in rural areas that are strongholds of the 53-year-old left-wing former schoolteacher Castillo, who is from a poor Andean mountain district.

WHO, Johns Hopkins, and Gates Foundation Conduct Another Pandemic Simulation. This Time the Virus Is Deadlier and Targets Children | The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security partnered with the World Health Organization and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct "Catastrophic Contagion," an exercise to simulate a global pandemic that is deadlier than the coronavirus and especially dangerous for children. Bill Gates was in attendance. The group conducted Catastrophic Contagion in Brussels, Belgium, on October 23, 2022. During the simulation, the World Health Organization's health advisory board addressed a fictional "Severe Epidemic Enterovirus Respiratory Syndrome" pandemic that originates in Brazil and disseminates across the globe. The exercise simulated a series of WHO emergency health advisory board meetings addressing a fictional pandemic set in the near future.

A fourth batch of the so-called “Twitter Files" has been released by best-selling author Michael Shellenberger. | The first installment of what has been dubbed the “Twitter Files” dropped on December 2 via investigative journalist Matt Taibbi. Since then, batches two and three were also made public after the company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, armed Taibbi and his colleague Bari Weiss with further illuminating data. ● The latest installment of the treasure trove of data that Twitter CEO Elon Musk vowed would shed light on “free speech suppression” pertains to the social media platform’s actions leading up to the ban on former President Donald Trump instituted on January 8, 2021 after the events at the US capitol on January 6. Like in the case of the preceding batches, the insider information was given to journalists and authors by the tech billionaire to post on their Twitter accounts.

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