The Austrian government has withdrawn its support for a European Army. The project is seen as mainly serving the interests of Germany and France.
In other news, after being attacked by Mitt Romney, Donald Trump said the former presidential candidate had fought harder against him (Trump) than he ever had in his campaign against Barack Obama.
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Bernie Sanders: Treat Climate Change Like a ‘Devastating Military Attack’
Humanity must declare war against climate change, Bernie Sanders said Tuesday, treating it like a military threat that demands full engagement.
“We must look at climate change as if it were a devastating military attack against the United States and the entire planet. And we must respond accordingly,” Mr. Sanders said in a Tweet.
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Congratulations on the Promotion. But Did Science Get a Demotion?
A number of recent news articles have brought renewed attention to financial conflicts of interest in medical science. Physicians and medical administrators had financial links to companies that went undeclared to medical journals even when they were writing on topics in which they clearly had monetary interests.
Most agree such lapses damage the medical and scientific community. But our focus on financial conflicts of interest should not lead us to ignore other conflicts that may be equally or even more important. Such biases need not be explicit, like fraud.
“I believe a more worrisome source of research bias derives from the researchers seeking to fund and publish their work, and advance their academic careers,” said Dr. Jeffrey Flier, a former dean of Harvard Medical School who has written on this topic a number of times.
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Donald Trump Predicts Jeff Flake Will ‘Probably Work for CNN’
President Donald Trump ridiculed his former Republican Senate critics, predicting at the White House on Wednesday that former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake will probably end up working for CNN.
“So Jeff Flake is now selling real estate or whatever he’s doing. He’ll probably go to work for CNN,” Trump said. “That’s my prediction.”
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Donald Trump: Mitt Romney Fights Me More Than He Did Barack Obama
President Donald Trump further ridiculed failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney for continuing to criticize him and his presidency.
“If he fought really hard against President Obama like he does against me, he would have won the election,” Trump said.
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Former NY Times Editor Rips Trump Coverage as Biased
A former executive editor of the New York Times says the paper’s news pages, the home of its straight-news coverage, have become “unmistakably anti-Trump.”
Jill Abramson, the veteran journalist who led the newspaper from 2011 to 2014, says the Times has a financial incentive to bash the president and that the imbalance is helping to erode its credibility.
In a soon-to-be published book, “Merchants of Truth,” that casts a skeptical eye on the news business, Abramson defends the Times in some ways but offers some harsh words for her successor, Dean Baquet. And Abramson, who was the paper’s only female executive editor until her firing, invoked Steve Bannon’s slam that in the Trump era the mainstream media have become the “opposition party.”
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Google Blocks Gateway Pundit From News Search Results
Google has rejected an application from conservative website The Gateway Pundit to appear in Google News search results.
In an email to the Gateway Pundit, Google claimed that it could not provide specific reasons why the site had been rejected. Instead, the tech giant provided two “common reasons for rejection,” although it would not say if they were the actual reasons the conservative website was rejected.
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Jay Inslee is Running for President — You Know, The Governor of Washington
The Atlantic reports that Jay Inslee is planning a presidential campaign.
That’s the current Democratic governor of the state of Washington, just in case you’re drawing a blank. And he’s talking about running a campaign that is, if not completely focused on one issue, then heavily focused upon it:
Inslee says he has one priority: global warming. It’s not theoretical, or a cause just for tree huggers anymore. Putting off dealing with it for a year or two or kicking it to some new bipartisan commission won’t work, he says. He plans to focus on the threat that climate change poses to the environment and national security—the mega-storms and fires causing millions in damages, the weather changes that will cause mass migrations, the droughts that will devastate farmers in America and around the world.
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Mickey Mouse Will be Public Domain Soon— Here’s What That Means
As the ball dropped over Times Square last night, all copyrighted works published in 1923 fell into the public domain (with a few exceptions). Everyone now has the right to republish them or adapt them for use in new works.
It’s the first time this has happened in 21 years.
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Muslim Doctor Admits Deliberately Giving Jews the “Wrong Meds”; Media Ignores
The mainstream media in America has completely ignored a bombshell story about a Muslim doctor in in Ohio who admitted to deliberately giving Jewish people the wrong medications.
27-year-old Lara Kollab was fired from her position as an Internal Medicine Resident at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, after tweets were uncovered in which she spread anti-Semitic hatred on Twitter for at least 6 years.
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New images of Ultima Thule, the small chunk of primordial debris NASA’s New Horizons probe zoomed past on New Year’s Day, came into much sharper focus Wednesday, revealing a snowman-shaped object made up of two smaller, roughly spherical bodies that gently collided and stuck together during the birth of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago.
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Patreon Goes PC: Peterson and Rubin Announce That They Will Quit Ailing Platform
Canadian clinical psychologist and University of Toronto Professor Jordan B Peterson, 56, has announced that he is to leave the crowd funding site Patreon on January 15th 2019 along with American liberal political commentator Dave Rubin, 42.
The announcements come in response to the recent deactivation of accounts on one of the leading funding models for Independent creators online, Patreon. The most recent being Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin), who had his account terminated in a row over content deemed to have breeched their community standards. There is an ever growing number of You-Tubers and content creators walking away from Patreon due to the way Patreon are applying their terms and conditionswhen a members content is in question.
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In a Facebook post, State Secretary for EU Relations Judit Varga called it “particularly scary” that European Commission President Jean-Claude doesn’t consider migration to be Europe’s biggest problem.
According to Varga, the Brussels’ elite is completely out of touch with reality and the European citizens:
“His particularly frightening answer to the question, whether proper management of the migration crisis would be an important issue during EP elections, was that he would be very sorry as there are far important problems in the EU to consider.
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Austria Withdraws Support From EU Army Project
Austria’s defence minister has said his nation will not be involved in the developing pan-European army, a pet project of leading globalists like Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron, saying the continent should concentrate on cooperation, not integration.
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Bad News About Sweden is ‘Right-Wing Conspiracy’ To Tear Down Liberal Utopia — Think Tank
“The image of Sweden abroad has changed significantly lately,” writes Fria Tider. But everything is actually a “smear campaign” according to the British think tank “Institute for Strategic Dialogue” (ISD).
ISD — which cooperates with George Soros’ foundation Open Society — argues that a global right-wing conspiracy, aimed at Sweden in order to slander the country, is ongoing.
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Finland Leader Attacks ‘Hate Speech’ Against Foreign Child Sex Abusers
Finland’s prime minister has used a New Year’s address to demand citizens refrain from “disseminating hate speech” in the wake of investigations into a foreign rape gang preying on young girls.
Juha Sipilä referred to recent events in Oulu, where police have identified 10 foreign suspects in connection with cases involving grooming, sexual abuse, and violence against children as young as ten as he warned Finns not to “stir up hatred” against migrants.
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France, The Sick Man of Europe
by Srdja Trifkovic
France’s ambassador to Poland Pierre Levy has said he was “surprised, even shocked,” by the Polish foreign minister, Jacek Czaputowicz, declaring that “something’s not right” with France, and that was “sad because France is the sick man of Europe, dragging Europe down.” M. Levy went on to make an astonishing statement which only confirmed that the Pole was right.
Talking to the media shortly before Christmas, Mr. Czaputowicz said that the protests in recent weeks and the Strasbourg Christmas market attack by a Muslim reflected France’s overall decrepitude. His reference to the jihadist attack was particularly significant—and irksome to the French ambassador—because it clearly alluded to Poland’s refusal to accept any Muslim refugees from Greece and Italy under EU quotas. That position is shared by the other three members of the Visegrad Group, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic.
Levy warned that populism and “fringe forces” threatened European interests. As for the Strasbourg attack, he said that “the investigation into its roots and causes had not yet been completed.” Levy further asserted that most of the perpetrators of past attacks were motivated by the same forces of economic inequality that gave rise to the yellow vest riots: “The attacks were acts of . . . people who, for various reasons, found themselves on the margins [of society], and who adopted the badge of Islamic radicals, even though, in reality, they weren’t radicals at all.”…
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France: Pro-Frexit MEP Registers ‘Yellow Jackets’ For European Elections
An anti-EU French MEP who has written a book in favour of a ‘Frexit’ has registered ‘Yellow Vests’ for this year’s European Elections.
The country saw nationwide protests from those initially opposed to unpopular French President Emmanuel Macron’s plans for fuel tax, though they escalated to reflect deep discontent with the government in general, who eventually backed down on their original tax plans.
And now Florian Philipott, who has been consistently supportive of the Yellow Vest movement, has registered the name and intends to run it alongside a joint ticket with his party, The Patriots.
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Ireland: Bus and Rail Drivers May Boycott City No-Go Zones
Bus and rail drivers want company backing to pull services in ‘no-go zones’ following a series of terrifying attacks.
A union has written to Bus Éireann and Irish Rail seeking the extension of a protocol that allows Dublin Bus drivers to halt operations following a set number of incidents.
Dart drivers have described the line north of Connolly as ‘bandit country’ and claim drugs are openly pedalled, while fights and other aggressive behaviour are a regular occurrence.
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London, Scotland Politicise New Year’s Eve Celebrations With Pro-EU Themes
The Scottish National Party (SNP) politicised Scotland’s famous Hogmanay celebrations for the New Year with a pro-EU theme, and even projected “love letters to Europe” onto a number of buildings.
Meanwhile London Mayor Sadiq Khan turned the city’s Ferris Wheel into a giant EU flag during the city’s New Year’s Eve celebrations.
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Marine Le Pen Calls President Macron “An Imposter” And “A Pyromaniac”
French President Emmanuel Macron called Yellow Vest leaders ‘hateful’ in his televised New Year’s speech.
Macron promised that his reform agenda would continue despite the ‘hateful’ Yellow Vests continued protests against him and his government.
Marine Le Pen, who has strongly overtaken Macron in voter polls, hitted back at ‘pyromaniac’ Macron on Twitter.
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Neighbourhoods in Brussels Out of Control: Emergency Services Tricked and Attacked
Firemen in Brussels had to flee from youths in the multicultural suburb of Molenbeek several times. The fire brigade’s union is “sick of it”, Belgian newspaper HLN reports.
During New Year’s Eve the fire brigade were attacked with stones and fireworks and a house burned to the ground as firemen had to wait for police protection.
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Our Future is Great, We Are One of the Safest Countries in the World — Czech PM
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis is positive about his country’s future and expects more positive changes in 2019.
“We have a very good budget that dramatically increases pensions and salaries.
“Last but not least, we have the lowest unemployment rate in Europe and we are the sixth or seventh safest country in the world,” the Prime Minister said in a TV interview with Czech Television.
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Polish Leader: EU Does Not Understand Post-Communist Eastern Europe
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said that the European Union does not understand post-Communist eastern countries, as the bloc bears down on Poland over sovereignty.
The premier made the comments to the Financial Times while he defended his country’s judicial reforms which seek to sweep out the remnants of its Soviet satellite past.
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Report: One in Five Austrian Residents Born Overseas
A study released by the Austrian Integration Fund has revealed that as many as 20 per cent of Austria’s residents were born overseas and more than half of them come from non-EU countries.
The study, entitled “Federal States — Statistics on Migration & Integration,” showed that the majority of foreign-born residents live in the Austrian capital of Vienna with a total of 36 per cent of the city’s population being born overseas, Kronen Zeitung reports.
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UK: ‘Allah!’ Terror Stabbing Suspect Detained Under Mental Health Act
The 25-year-old man suspected of committing a stabbing attack at a Manchester train station New Year’s Eve whilst shouting “Allah!” and pro-Islamic caliphate slogans is being detained under the mental health act.
The move comes as a result of an assessment by medical staff, police confirmed Tuesday night, but that the terrorism investigation “remains ongoing,” reports The Telegraph.
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UK: London Man Repeatedly Stabbed in Stomach, Day After Two Fatal Stabbings
A man in Blackheath has been repeatedly stabbed in the stomach after two other Londoners were stabbed to death on New Year’s Day.
Police were called to Corelli Road in the south London borough of Greenwich at just before 6am on Wednesday morning following reports of a stabbing, reports the Evening Standard.
The man, believed to be in his 30s, was taken to hospital and is in critical condition. Scotland Yard have said that no arrests have been made, and investigations are ongoing.
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UK: Man Deliberately Run Over Outside Batley Nightclub Was a Serving Soldier
Police have confirmed that a military serviceman hit by a car outside a nightclub was deliberately targeted. However, they have ruled out a racial or terror-related motive for the attack on the 21-year-old soldier.
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We Don’t Want to Mix Islam With Our Culture, It’s Not Good — Hungarian Prime Minister
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has criticised countries that “mix two cultures” and think it will “create something new and good”.
“There are countries that think that mixing two cultures, Christianity and Islam, creates something new and good. We see it differently.
“If the others want to mix their cultures, then they have a right to this attempt. But we do not want to start any trials in Hungary.
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What is Being Taught at the “Islamic University of Europe” In the Netherlands?
A recent development in a two-year-old corruption scandal — involving the so-called “Islamic University of Europe” in the Netherlands — has renewed public interest in the institution, involving tax fraud.
Its rector, professor Nedim Bahçekapili, has gone missing after Dutch prosecutors decided to arrest him as part of an investigation addressing the school’s “tax evasion of millions of Euros, corruption, and opening fraudulent classes.” The Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security said that the rector could not be found and is believed to have left the country.
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Why Sweden Ended Up at a Political Dead End
Nearly four months after the elections, Sweden is still without a government. Why can’t individual parties from one political bloc cooperate with a party from another bloc? Why can’t the blocs cooperate in general? In our previous article on the subject, we postulated that the electorate has become tripolar — effectively ensuring that no pole gets a majority alone. Today we ask: Why is the Swedish democratic system so deeply built around to the two pole-system that it cannot keep up with the tripolar electorate?
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Breaking: Multiple Stabbing Horror at Sydney Church of Scientology HQ — Two Hospitalised
“SEVERAL people have been injured with two rushed to hospital after a savage stabbing attack at the ‘Church of Scientology’ in Sydney, Australia, officials have said.
Police were called to the scene on Greville Street, in the Chatswood district after at least two people were stabbed outside the complex.
One of the hospitalised victims is thought to be in a serious condition.
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Brazil’s New President Vows to Fight “Marxist Garbage” And “Climate Change Hoax”
On New Year’s Day, Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, was sworn in — and he started his presidency with a bang.
One of his main goals is to fight the “Marxist garbage” that has installed itself in educational institutions, Samhällsnytt reports.
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Bromance Blooms Between Trump and Brazil’s New Populist President
President Donald Trump has exchanged a series of supportive messages with Brazil’s new populist president, Jair Bolsonaro, who was inaugurated on January 1.
In a tweet Tuesday, Mr. Trump expressed congratulations to Mr. Bolsonaro for his “great inauguration speech” while assuring the new leader “the U.S.A. is with you!”
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Belgium: Firemen Flee After Being Attacked by Migrant Youths in Multicultural Molenbeek
Firemen were forced to flee after migrant youths in the multicultural suburb of Molenbeek, Brussels attacked them with stones and fireworks.
A house in the area even burned to the ground because firemen had to wait too long for police protection.
“We are really tired of this ‘New Year’s tradition,’“ Eric Labourdette, a spokesman for the fire brigade union told Belgian newspaper HLN, adding “They call us for small fires and attack us while we want to help.”
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Overwhelmed Border Officials Beg for Help Amid Surge of Sick Migrants
Border officials begged for medical help from the Coast Guard and the Pentagon to screen illegal immigrants and asked American and Mexican disease specialists to investigate a surge of sick migrants caught at the border after another illegal immigrant child died in U.S. custody.
Every juvenile currently held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection is being rechecked for health issues, and a review of CBP procedures is underway, authorities said after the death on Christmas Eve.
This one involved an 8-year-old boy who jumped the border with his father on Dec. 18. They had been shuttled to four CBP facilities and one hospital in the six days before the boy’s death.
CBP said more than two dozen “welfare checks” were performed during those six days and it wasn’t until the final day that the boy showed any problems. He was treated at a hospital and released just hours before falling ill again, and he died soon after he was readmitted.
The death has fueled an already raging debate over CBP’s handling of the surge of illegal immigrant families that is straining Homeland Security’s abilities. Democrats in Congress and immigrant rights activists across the country have said the blood of children is on the government’s hands and insist that bad policies and poor attitudes have contributed to the deaths.
[No,despite the political blame game, the cause of these deaths of vulnerable children is the long, arduous journey to our border and their less-than-robust health…Read it all…]
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UK: Home Secretary Attacked by Pro-Immigration Charities After Questioning Motives of Boat Migrants
The British Home Secretary Sajid Javid has invited the anger of pro-migration activists by suggesting boat migrants coming across the English Channel are not genuine refugees, because they are already in a safe country before coming to the UK.
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Boys and girls in year three will be encouraged to explore different gender roles in class and wear ethnic clothing as part of a controversial new program.
The fresh syllabus, which has the backing of the McGowan Government in Western Australia, will be introduced to a handful of Perth schools from term one in February.
Students will be provided with a range of dress ups and toys and will also learn about different kinds of ethnic dress such as burkas, traditionally worn by women of Islamic faith…
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‘God Performs Way More Abortions Than I Do’
In the midst of an ongoing Twitter war, an American abortionist said that God performs “way more” abortions than she does, suggesting that miscarriages are God’s abortions.
Responding to a Twitter comment last week wondering aloud of what “God thinks” of her profession, Utah abortionist Leah Torres said, “God performs way more abortions than I do, so there’s that.”
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Left-Wing Actress Hopes Louis CK is “Raped” And “Shot at,” Twitter Does Nothing
Left-wing actress Ellen Barkin expressed her desire to see Louis CK “raped” and “shot at” in a series of tweets, prompting Twitter to do… absolutely nothing.
The comedian triggered a Twitter outrage mob on Sunday night when a bit from his latest stand up show leaked online in which he called out the absurdity of millenials demanding to be referred to by “non-binary” pronouns.
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NJ University Course Will Explore ‘Non-Human Perspectives on Queer’
A prominent New Jersey college is offering its students the chance to learn about “non-human perspectives” on LGBT issues, while also exploring “the third sex,” and “the political underpinnings and the transgressive nature of ‘queer.’“
Montclair State University, rated New Jersey’s best public university by Forbes, offers the course “Queer Identities in a Transforming World: The Trouble with Normal” as part of its “Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Studies (GLQS) program for 2019.
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Brains of 3 People Have Been Successfully Connected, Enabling Them to Share Thoughts
Neuroscientists have successfully hooked up a three-way brain connection to allow three people to share their thoughts — and in this case, play a Tetris-style game.
The team thinks this wild experiment could be scaled up to connect whole networks of people, and yes, it’s as weird as it sounds.
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A notable article about George Soros:
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/447686-globalists-soros-france-protests/
Happy New Year!
Maybe you can find an analogue of articles in English.
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1) Russia.
https://fergana.agency/news/103857/
On December 24, the Moscow District Military Court sentenced four employees of the Coca-Cola plant in Novo-Peredelkino, two Tajiks, an Uzbek and a Dagestani, to a colony for 17 to 19 years, for preparing the attack at Teply Stan metro station, reports Mediazone “.
…According to investigators, the defendants invented conditional ciphers to talk to each other: they called the planned attack “the wedding”, the explosion was described as “play the wedding”, and the explosive device was called the “watermelon”.
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2) Sweden.
https://vesti.uz/fanatiki-terakt-nazyvali-svadboj/
FANATICS CALLED TERRORIST ACT “WEDDING”
Swedish prosecutors exposed a group of Uzbeks in the town of Stromsund, who were preparing a series of attacks.
The prosecutor’s office in Sweden claims that the phones of two suspects have been tapped since 2017. According to local authorities, the men used code words in the correspondence. So, according to their information, “wedding” meant a terrorist act, and “car decoration” meant its mining.
The group was headed by David Idrisson. In fact, this is an Uzbek citizen Farhad Tashmukhammedov. He moved to Sweden in 2008, received a residence permit as a refugee and changed his name. It was Idrisson who bought a large batch of chemicals to make improvised explosives.
Re Bernie Sanders on climate change: ignoring the threat posed by Islam, can he really be unaware of the much greater- and probably more imminent- danger of an EMP from the Sun (around ten years overdue- the last one in 1857 severely damaged the telegraph, the only electrical device then in widespread use), or the eruption of the supervolcano under Yellowstone Park (about 30,000 years!) Either would cause the extinction of much of humanity. But then, most politicians seem ignorant of the need to address these issues.
We can “harden” electronics and the grid to protect from an EMP event, but I doubt there is anything we can do about the Yellowstone caldera.