Weekly News-May-2-2024
Here are our top 5 stories of the week.
#1 – Spain’s Renewable Energy “Success” Triggers Nationwide Blackout, Exposing Grid Vulnerabilities
By Cassie B | Natural News
Spain and Portugal suffered the largest blackout in their shared history this week, plunging millions into darkness for most of the day on Monday. A report is now linking the outage to two solar plant failures in Spain’s southwest, which destabilized the grid. The incident halted critical infrastructure such as trains, airports, and emergency services, sparking calls for accountability as governments rushed to downplay renewable energy contributions.
Red Eléctrica, Spain’s grid operator, identified a cascade of power losses at solar facilities as the likely trigger. The failure rippled across an interconnected European grid, severing Spain’s tie with France and plunging Portugal into chaos. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez attempted to minimize concerns, stating, “We have never had a complete collapse of the system.” But this response ignores the reality — grid dependency on intermittent solar energy left the electrical infrastructure vulnerable. Read full article >
#2 – Trump Unleashes Economic Doomsday on America with “Secondary Sanctions” that BLOCK all Exports from China, with NO exceptions!
WARNING: The global economy is teetering on the brink of catastrophic collapse as President Trump escalates economic warfare against Iran with devastating secondary tariffs—effectively declaring a trade embargo against China, the world’s largest buyer of Iranian oil.
This is economic warfare on a scale never before seen, and the consequences will be apocalyptic for global supply chains, energy markets, and the daily lives of average Americans. Read full article >
#3 – Canadians Elect Central Banker, Former WEF Young Global Leader Mark Carney as PM
Canadians voted to keep the liberals in power, and the president of the United States is getting credit for it.
The Associated Press announced early Tuesday morning, “Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party has won the federal election, capping a stunning turnaround in fortunes fueled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s annexation threats and trade war.”
Carney is an elite globalist caricature. He has an economics degree from Harvard, he is a former central banker (he served as the governor of the Bank of Canada and the governor of the Bank of England), he is a former World Economic Forum Young Global Leader… Read full article >
#4 – Israel Strikes Metro Damascus, Say They Will ‘Protect’ Druze
By Jason Ditz | Antiwar
Sectarian fighting in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana left at least 18 dead yesterday, and Israel is already looking to parlay that into a new excuse for military action against the Syrian government, with the idea that they need to “protect” the Druze minority militarily.
The Israeli military reported attacking the Damascus suburb of Sahnaya, and that they targeted an “extremist group” that was planning new attacks on the Druze. Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz issued statements demanding the Syrian government take action to prevent further attacks on the Druze. Read full article >
#5 – North Korea Deploys Troops To Russia
By Mac Slavo | SHTF Plan
North Korea has confirmed that it has sent troops to Russia to fight against Ukraine in the war. Ruler Kim Jong-Un said that it has already helped Moscow regain control of Russian territory that had been occupied by Ukraine.
North Korea sent an estimated 14,000 troops, including 3,000 reinforcements to replace its losses, Ukrainian officials have said. Lacking armoured vehicles and drone warfare experience, they took heavy casualties but adapted quickly, according to a report byReuters. Read full article >
Here are our top 5 most underreported or most bizarre stories of the week.
#1 – Sam Altman Launches Dystopian Iris Scanning Orb In The U.
By Patrick Wood | Technocracy News
Sam Altman’s creepy iris-scanning orbs have come to the United States. His goal is to scan every eyeball on Earth. Already, there are 160 countries around the world that are signing up over 170,000 people per week. Altman’s company changed its name to WORLD.ORG to offer a comprehensive ecosystem of WorldID, WorldApp, WorldChain, and WorldCoin (and WorldSocial?).
The sister company that actually manufactures the Orb is Tools for Humanity, where Atman is the Chairman. Read full article >
#1 (tie) – Trump’s Billionaire Technocrat Buddy Peter Thiel Sells ‘Smart’ AI ‘War Fighting’ System to NATO While Talking Up U.S. Trade War with China
By Leo Hohmann | LeoHohmann.com
President Trump’s push to recalibrate the U.S.-China trade relationship has the full endorsement of Silicon Valley billionaire and mega-technocrat Peter Thiel.
Thiel, one of the infamous “PayPal mafia,” and a major financier of Trump-Vance, recently told American Optimist host Joe Lonsdale that “something like the sort of reset that they’re talking about now seems where we’re going, where you need a very drastic reset with China.” Read full article >
#2 – Scientists Working on mRNA Shots for ‘Every Imaginable Infectious Disease,’ Researcher Claims
By Emily Mangiaracina | LifeSite News
A Nobel Prize-winning researcher who contributed to mRNA technology has said the gene therapy platform is being explored for “every imaginable infectious disease,” raising health concerns due to the dangers of mRNA shots.
Attorney Tom Renz recently warned that “all the childhood vaccines are going to be gene therapies” and that mRNA is now being integrated “into every vaccine out there,” although LifeSiteNews has not heard back from Renz after inquiring into his claim. Read full article >
#3 – Farmers Cry Out for Help as Massive Financial Losses Pile Up and Demand for U.
By Michael Snyder | The Economic Collapse Blog
China is normally the largest export market for U.S. agricultural products. In a typical year, we sell tens of billions of dollars worth of agricultural products to the Chinese, but now that door has been slammed shut thanks to the extremely high tariffs that China has imposed on U.S. imports. If that door is not reopened very soon, farmers all over the nation will be facing financial ruin due to massive financial losses that are already piling up. This is not a crisis that may or may not arrive someday. As you will see below, this is a crisis that is already here. Read full article >
#4 – Police Are Now Using AI To Create Fake Undercover Profiles Online
By 404 Media | The Free Thought Project
Image: Wired
American police departments near the United States-Mexico border are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for an unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected drug and human traffickers, according to internal documents, contracts, and communications 404 Media obtained via public records requests.
Massive Blue, the New York-based company that is selling police departments this technology, calls its product Overwatch, which it markets as an “AI-powered force multiplier for public safety” that “deploys lifelike virtual agents, which infiltrate and engage criminal networks across various channels.” Read full article >
#5 – Meta’s AI Will ‘Engage in Graphic Sex Talk’ with Kids Using Disney Voices
By | LifeSite News
In case you needed yet another reason to keep your kids off social media, a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal revealed that Meta’s AI-powered “chatbots” will “engage in graphic sex talk with users, even children, with the voices of Disney characters and celebrities.”
The shift is apparently due to Mark Zuckerberg’s push to remove Meta’s “family-friendly” approach to AI and chatbots in particular to better compete with other social media companies. Read full article >
#5 (tie) – International Missionaries Face New Restrictions Spreading Gospel in China
By | Christian Index
BEIJING (BP) – The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) enacted new restrictions on foreign missionaries there on Thursday, May 1, preventing them from preaching, evangelizing and establishing various religious organizations among other activities without official government approval.
Establishing schools, appointing clergy, using the internet to conduct illegal religious activities and producing, selling or distributing Bibles and religious audio-visual products are among activities punishable by law for foreigners and Chinese nationals that aid them, according to the rules posted online by China’s National Religious Affairs Administration.
The rules are among the latest in the Communist nation’s drive to Sinicize Christianity and other religions under the leadership of President Xi Jinping. Read full article >
