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Five months into the Gaza crisis, the results of the updated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) assessment released today indicate the unfolding of the worst possible forecast for Gaza. Gaza is already facing famine, with 100% of people estimated to be acutely food insecure, according to the IPC. In Gaza's Northern Governorates, 70% of the population are facing imminent famine. In the centre and southern governorates, 50% of people face catastrophic food insecurity conditions. The situation is projected to deteriorate fast in the next weeks and months and famine is likely to also affect the South. This is unprecedented....

Breaking News: The open borders, lockdown addicted, mandatory JAB pushing, WEF Govt of tiny Rishi Sunak are introducing new legal definitions of terrorism. Critics of the WEF, UN, EU, NATO and the WHO Treaty can expect a knock at the door. Here are the new diktats from WEF Sunak and Co. Under the new definition, which comes into force on Thursday, extremism is “the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance, that aims to: 1. negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others; or

The German Foreign Office tweeted screenshots on Friday of the accounts of journalists suspended by Twitter, telling the social media platform that suspending their accounts was unacceptable. "Press freedom cannot be switched on and off on a whim," the ministry wrote on its official Twitter page. "The journalists below can no longer follow us, comment and criticize. We have a problem with that, @Twitter." The move comes a day after the social media platform changed its policies revolving around accounts which tracked private jets, including a jet owned by Musk. The EU, meanwhile, has warned Elon Musk that Twitter could...

We have been discussing how Democratic leaders like Hillary Clinton called on foreign companies to pass censorship laws to prevent Elon Musk from restoring free speech protections on Twitter. The EU has responded aggressively to warn Musk not to allow greater free speech or face crippling fines and even potential criminal enforcement. After years of using censorship-by-surrogates in social media companies, Democratic leaders seem to have rediscovered good old-fashioned state censorship. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) declared Musk’s pledge to restore free speech values on social media as threatening Democracy itself. She has promised that “there are going to be...

Eloïse Bouton, a freelance journalist working for the mainstream press who later left Femen in 2014, was the star of the event planned by the group to demand the protection of abortion 'rights.'(LifeSiteNews) — The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has awarded almost 10,000 euros ($9791 US) in damages and legal costs to a former “Femen” member, Eloïse Bouton, on the grounds that her right to “freedom of expression” was violated by the French courts that condemned her for her shocking “topless” intrusion into the Parisian church of La Madeleine shortly before 10 a.m. on December 20, 2013. The...

Poland's money-losing flag-carrier, Lot Polish Airlines, is trying to slash costs and cut jobs in an effort to survive. The airline is also considering the purchase of up to six new airliners - the Airbus A330-200 or Boeing's new 7E7 - to replace part of its long-haul fleet. National carriers across Europe are being forced to carve out niches in a new and unforgiving environment, dominated at the top end by giants such as British Airways and at the bottom by aggressive low-cost fliers such as Ryanair, which plans to enter the Polish market this year. The increasingly fierce competition...

Serious questions would be raised about the UK's relationship with the rest of the EU if it rejected the proposed constitution, the EU's foreign policy chief has said. Javier Solano said it would not be "the end of the world" if the UK rejected the controversial treaty in a referendum expected in spring 2006. But he said it would raise questions about Britain's relations with those countries that voted in favour of the constitution. Mr Solano said the constitution would help an expanded EU operate more effectively. He said a "No" vote would not mean Britain would be excluded from...