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Dan Simmer

Winter Solstice: Practices for the New Year

“The darkest days bring us to our brightest moments.” Happy Solstice and Happy Holidays! December 21, 2025, marks the day of the Winter Solstice. We know this as the darkest day of the year, the day we spiral into the cycle that reminds us

Australia Beach Shooting a Heinous Attack on Jewish Community

(Sydney) – A summer Sunday evening at Sydney, Australia’s Bondi beach turned into a terrifying nightmare as two gunmen opened fire on people celebrating the first night of the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Sixteen people have been confirmed

Humanitarians’ Baseless Trial in Greece

Two dozen humanitarian workers facing 20 years in prison finally got their day in court on December 4 and 5 on the Greek island of Lesbos after a seven-year wait. We were there. The hearings quickly revealed just how baseless the case again

US: ICE Arrest at FIFA Event Spotlights Dangers for World Cup

(New York) – The arrest and return of an asylum seeker who took his children to the Club World Cup soccer tournament final on July 13, 2025, raises serious concerns about the safety of noncitizens attending the 2026 World Cup in the United

Are you taking the right vitamin D supplements?

In temperate regions, where the sun seldom makes an appearance during the winter months, to keep our bodies healthy, we need to compensate for the lack of sunlight. In the UK, for example, it is recommended that everyone over the age of fou

AI isn’t just taking over jobs; it’s now taking over creation itself

Sam Altman is funding a project to use gene editing to develop human babies that do not have a hereditary disease. They claim this is to cure incurable heritable genetic diseases – but that’s not what the end goal is. Let’s not lose touch

They have been pushing for carbon labelling on food for years – why?

For years, corporations and “scientists” have been pushing to place carbon labelling on food products. The unelected European Commission is going one step further and moving towards mandating it. What’s the agenda hiding behind this seemin

Cloudflare outage makes hundreds of websites inaccessible

A widespread outage at Cloudflare, a major internet infrastructure provider, has caused numerous websites, including X (formerly Twitter), Downdetector, OpenAI and Spotify to become inaccessible on Tuesday, 18 November 2025, with users enco

US/El Salvador: Torture of Venezuelan Deportees

(Washington, DC) – The Venezuelan nationals the United States government sent to El Salvador in March and April 2025 were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence, Human Rights Watch and Cristosal said in a report r

Can editing someone’s genes make them taller or more intelligent?

The genetics of human traits such as height and intelligence are complex. Height, for example, is influenced by over 12,000 genes. Likewise, intelligence is complex and is not only influenced by genes. Intelligence is believed to be 50-8

Kenya: New Cybercrime Amendments Threaten Online Expression

(Nairobi, November 6, 2025) – Kenya’s newly enacted Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendments) Act, 2025, risks criminalizing legitimate online speech and its overbroad provisions should be repealed, Human Rights Watch said today. The ame

China: Authorities Shut Down Film Festival in New York

Chinese authorities harassed several dozen Chinese film directors and producers, as well as their families in China, causing them to pull films from the inaugural IndieChina Film Festival in New York City, Human Rights Watch said today. On

Dr. Bill Schneobelen: Freemasonry and Islam

Few realise the historical and current connections between Freemasonry and Islam. In his Book ‘Masonry: Beyond the Light’, Dr. Bill Schnoebelen describes the most obvious connection between the two religions: the Shriners. Let’s not lose

Skinner’s contribution to the Depopulation Programme

Dr Vernon Coleman highlights a book published in 1971 by Professor B.F. Skinner in which he argued that reducing the number of people in the world is necessary to save the world’s resources. Not only that, Skinner’s work, funded by the US G