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Study finds four Australian regions with little COVID and brief lockdowns saw excess deaths surge after 90%+ COVID "vaccine" uptake in 2021. · by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH · Yesterday, Raphael Lataster published an ecological analysis in theInternational Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine examining excess mortality in Australia during 2021. Australia provided something rare: a real-world natural experiment. Several regions — Queensland,…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted Tehran must be barred from enriching uranium · Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ©  Amir Levy / Getty Images · [RT] Any deal with Iran on its nuclear program must strip the country of the ability to enrich uranium, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded. · The remarks came ahead of a second round of indirect US-Iran talks scheduled for Tuesday…

Europeans are “assembling” to expand in order to spite Russia, the top diplomat has said · EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas “assembling” with the prime ministers of Finland and Belgium, Brussels, January 22, 2026. ©  Thierry Monasse / Getty Images · The EU sees itself as a team of superheroes with an anti-Russian expansionist agenda, according to its top diplomat, Kaja Kallas. · The EU is urging member states to invest…

Washington maintained a warm tone at the Munich conference, but it has shown that it doesn’t intend to “defend the old order,” the outlet’s sources say · US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrive for a meeting at the Munich Security Conference on February 13, 2026. © Getty Images · [RT] The Munich Security Conference has revealed a widening rift between the US and Europe, as Washington signaled that it…

Yoni Ben-Menachem: ‘Trump has been anti-Iran for years; he doesn’t need Netanyahu to push him.’  · Christopher Helali: ‘But millions from Miriam Adelson certainly help pave the way!’ · In the latest episode of ‘Sanchez Effect’, we dive into a heated debate over who is right and wrong – as Iran and Israel are on different sides of history. · Middle East correspondent Yoni Ben-Menachem insists that Israel can't trust Iran, citing its repeated…

Jason Ross- U.S.Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Credit: U.S. State Department* · U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 13 and delivered what was meant to be a stirring defense of Western Civilization. It was the European continent, he declared, “that produced the genius of Mozart and Beethoven, of Dante and Shakespeare, of Michelangelo and Da Vinci, of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.”…

The Jimmy Dore Show · Jimmy talks to filmmaker Mikki Willis about allegations surrounding surveillance and blackmail at the Playboy Mansion under Hugh Hefner, drawing parallels to Jeffrey Epstein and other high-profile figures allegedly involved in blackmail. They reference claims from former insiders and media investigations suggesting hidden cameras, recorded encounters, and potential leverage over celebrities and politicians, while noting…

World Affairs In Context · In this new geopolitical breakdown, we dive into the latest analysis from the European Council on Foreign Relations and unpack what may be a historic turning point in European strategic thinking. · At this year’s Munich Security Conference, the message coming from mainstream European elites is clear: the liberal “rules-based international order” that defined global politics for nearly three decades is structurally…

The scarcity of reasonable grownup men, possessing masculine virtues, produces multi-generational psychosocial problems. · John Leake - Megan Fox with Machine Gun Kelly · There’s a verse in the Book of Exodus (20:5) that has long struck me as one of the most fascinating in the whole Bible. · “...for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them…

No extraterrestrial specimens are kept at Area 51, a secretive military base, though, according to the former US president · Former US President Barack Obama. ©  Scott Olson/Getty Images · [RT] Former US President Barack Obama has said he believes that aliens are “real” but dismissed longstanding conspiracy theories that the US is concealing proof of extraterrestrial life at a secretive military facility called Area 51. ·…