A newly published peer-reviewed study in Scientific Reports confirmed what many refused to even consider during the height of the COVID narrative—COVID harmed fertility rates. Researchers examined hundreds of men and found that those exposed to COVID-19 showed statistically significant declines in key fertility markers. Total sperm count dropped, progressive motility declined, and DNA fragmentation increased, which is critical because it directly impacts the ability to conceive and carry healthy offspring.
In the longitudinal portion of the study, where they tracked the same men before and after infection, the deterioration was unmistakable. Total sperm count, motility, and quality all declined after infection, while DNA fragmentation rose. In plain terms: the data showed that after COVID, sperm became fewer, slower, and more damaged.
Now this is where the real issue emerges, and it is precisely where governments and institutions become very quiet. We have hard clinical evidence that the virus itself had measurable negative effects on male fertility, and yet, the powers that be are still refusing to prosecute anyone for creating, studying, or “leaking” the virus.
COVID was not simply an “act of nature” as the public was led to believe. There is a growing body of evidence, including congressional investigations and internal communications, showing that gain-of-function research was funded, directly or indirectly, through U.S. agencies and funneled into laboratories studying bat coronaviruses. Dr. Anthony Fauci repeatedly denied under oath that such funding existed, only for documents later to surface showing that organizations like EcoHealth Alliance had indeed received grants tied to this type of research.
We shut down the global economy, mandated experimental injections, censored dissent, and now we are discovering measurable biological consequences from the virus itself, including potential long-term damage to fertility. Yet those who approved the funding, those who oversaw the research, and those who controlled the narrative have faced no meaningful accountability.
The population has been declining across the developed world long before COVID ever appeared because people no longer have confidence in the future. When you destroy economic stability, when you drive up the cost of living, when young people cannot afford homes or raise families, birth rates fall. That is a natural consequence of economic mismanagement. We have seen this countless times throughout history, from the collapse of Rome to modern Europe.
What COVID did was accelerate a trend that was already in motion, and that is the key point everyone keeps missing. Population decline does not happen overnight from a single event. It unfolds when confidence in the future begins to collapse, and COVID became the catalyst that pushed that process forward far more aggressively than anything we have seen in modern times.
You shut down the global economy, you destroy small businesses, you force people into isolation, and you create widespread uncertainty about health, employment, and stability. That does not inspire people to start families. We saw birth rates decline across multiple developed nations following the lockdown period, and that was entirely predictable. When people do not know if they will have a job next year, or if the world is becoming increasingly unstable, they postpone or abandon the idea of having children altogether.
At the same time, you have to factor in the biological side that is only now beginning to emerge in the data. Studies have already shown that COVID infection itself can reduce sperm quality, lower motility, and increase DNA fragmentation. That introduces another layer to the equation as there is evidence of a physical component that may also be contributing to reduced fertility in some cases. When you combine economic uncertainty with potential biological impacts, the effect on population becomes compounded.
Posted originally on Apr 20, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
The defeat of Viktor Orban in Hungary last weekend may have been celebrated in Brussels with their typical propaganda that Orban had established single-party rule in Hungary. The ultimate hypocrisy is that this claimed victory for democracy is celebrating the one-minded globalist party to govern Europe and ultimately the world, which is neither democratic nor accountable to citizens. In Hungary, people could vote for a leader, but in the EU, Ursula never stood for elections.
The people of Hungary did not vote directly for Viktor Orbán. Instead, Hungary operates under a parliamentary system, in which the Prime Minister is elected by Parliament.
The Ursula Von der Leyen directed the European Union to take sides in the Hungarian election and to undermine Orban, who asserted national priorities in disputes with the EU. The EU Commission rigged the Italian elections staging a coup against Berlusconi in Italy because he too opposed centralized control. Speaking on television, Thierry Breton, former European Commissioner for Internal Market, proclaimed that if the European Commission decides that the election in Germany was in some way influenced by foreign interference, they would seek to annul the result of the election in the same way they have just done with the Romanian election. Even the Scottish Independence vote in 2014 was rigged, The people sent in to count the votes were from the EU.
The EU has interfered in the Scottish, Italian, Romanian, Hungarian, and even the German election all to retain power. Ursula even sent in her spies to infiltrate the government. No sooner had Orban conceded defeat than a jubilant President Ursula von der Leyen called for the final coup de grace to national identity and sovereignty: the elimination of nations’ ability to stand against EU policies. So much for democracy.
Ursula did everything to overthrow Orban because of his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his lack of support for Ukraine. Ironically, the EU accused Orban of being authoritarian and corrupt, which seemed to be projecting their agenda on Orban.
Now we will see the unintended consequences of this election. Ursula interfered in the Hungarian election to elect the pro-EU Peter Magyar. He would surrender Hungary’s national dignity and render it subservient to Ursula’s dictatorial commands to achieve the EU’s ultimate exercise of authoritarian power. The EU was refusing to provide billions in funding to Hungary because Orban objected to the war in Ukraine.
Ursula has already given Magyar a list of 27 demands he must meet before she will hand over those billions. She publicly said that the EU needed to “use the momentum now” to consolidate its authoritarian power. She fails to comprehend that this authoritarianism is what will ultimately break the EU into pieces.
Ursula now has the audacity to eliminate the last vestige of national sovereignty, promising from the outset that the EU would never become tyrannical, since nothing would pass unless it was unanimous. She is pushing to eliminate the veto exercised by its member states. She wants absolute dictatorial power by eliminating member states’ control over their domestic policy, ensuring that they are forced to adhere to the priorities and values of the EU majority. This was precisely what Margaret Thatcher warned would be the outcome.
Amazingly, Ursula has flipped everything upside-down. She insists that the EU will now become a dictatorial regime no longer concerned about member state sovereignty. She has publicly stated: “Moving to qualified majority voting in foreign policy is an important way to avoid systemic blockages, as we have seen in the past.”
I have warned that centralized governments are the very reason empires, nations, and city-states have collapsed throughout history. The EU is following the same pattern, and this deliberate rigging of the Hungarian election demonstrates that it is Ursula who seeks dictatorial power – not Orban. Ursula is not just terminating national sovereignty; she is calling for a single European military command, completing a major globalist goal.
In the Peace Plan (Free Download) I wrote to present to President Putin at the request of the White House, I stated that our real enemy was NOT Russia but the EU. We have rejected the insane environmentalist and WOKE agendas of the EU that have destroyed their future and reduced its economic growth to nearly 50% of the United States, wiping out the living standards of Europeans in the years ahead.
The EU has torched the idea of free speech as part of its totalitarian agenda. Not only are member states to be stripped of a veto over centralized policies by unelected people in the halls of the EU, but the same policy is now being applied to individuals.
We are seeing European pressure to impose hate speech, which is opening the door to the denial of free speech. We saw that with COVID, where anyone who objected was silenced and de-platformed.
This is the threat to our American way of life. They seek to eliminate personal rights in the name of equality. That is why everything is headed for disaster as we head into 2032. This push for totalitarianism in the EU is inherently unstable and will ultimately collapse. We have witnessed how the EU has worked relentlessly to dismantle national sovereignty, cultural identity in its member states, and eliminate free speech. Historically, such systems always collapse as they have moved into the final stage of tyranny.
The world is under threat from this globalist agenda of ultimate power. We must take this seriously, for this is the threat of a global governance system of a one-world government posed in the backrooms and hallways from the WEF to the corridors of the EU, seeking to now infect passageways within Washington and Capitol Hill as well.
When Ursula Von der Leyen said she has the “momentum now” for the globalists, the enemy is the EU, and it seeks to spread globalism, no different from Nikita Khrushchev, who once boasted, “We will bury you” as Communism would conquer Capitalism. This is the same thing with a different label, allowing private ownership but regulating and taxing everything while exercising complete and utter control over what you say, where you live, and what you eat.
Posted originally on CTH on April 19, 2026 | Sundance |
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz appears on CBS Face the Nation to discuss the difficulty of negotiating with Iran, a regime based on fanatical religious zealotry and control. The video and transcript are below:
[Transcript] – MARGARET BRENNAN: Imtiaz Tyab reporting from Dubai. We turn now to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, who joins us this morning from New York. Welcome back to Face The Nation, ambassador.
AMBASSADOR MIKE WALTZ: Thank you, good to be with you.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So the President said Iran broke the ceasefire, but he is still offering them a deal. Is this a presentation of terms, or should we expect an actual, prolonged negotiation?
MIKE WALTZ: Well, I think this will be a continuation of the terms that the vice president offered a week ago. And look, we have to take a step back here in that – President Trump, the US Navy is controlling what is coming out of the straits. We’ve had the highest level engagement in the history of the Iranian regime, with the vice president leading. We have historic ceasefire talks going on between the Israelis and the Lebanese. The markets are up. Oil prices are relatively stable. The Iranian economy is devastated, and they’ve never been, I can tell you here at the United Nations, they’ve never been more diplomatically isolated. So Iran does not have the cards, and we are confident they will come to the table and finally give up their obsession with having a nuclear weapon.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, Iran has not yet announced that it’s sending a delegation to Islamabad. I know there’s this back and forth all morning long about whether the vice president would be leading it or not. CBS, as you just heard, is reporting he will be but why is it important that he be there in person? Is it because Iran has refused to send anyone with decision making authority, unless he is there?
MIKE WALTZ: Well, you’ve seen the chaos, I mean that you just pointed to on the Iranian side. The last 48 hours, you have their foreign minister announcing that they’re going to stop attacking shipping. Then you have the IRGC saying that they will and then doing so, as President Trump pointed out, an absolute violation. So the Iranian side is in a bit of chaos. This is absolutely due to the devastating strikes on their leadership. But I think the vice president leading shows the level of engagement from the US side that we are absolutely serious. And I for one, thank God for future generations that we are arresting a problem before it’s too late. We’re not waiting until the US has no options —
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well —
MIKE WALTZ: and Iran has some kind of breakout, which would lead to a nuclear breakout all over the Middle East.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me follow up on what you just said, though, because that’s important, the Iranian side is in chaos. So how do you know you’re negotiating with the right person? It’s been reported, The Institute for the Study of War says that the IRGC Commander General the Vahidi has secured control over the negotiations and the military within the past 48 hours. Does that mean Foreign Minister Araghchi is not the person to be sitting across the table from? Who’s in charge?
MIKE WALTZ: Well, look – again the Iranian regime, we’ve put them in chaos, but at the same time, we are never going to take an approach of trust. Any deal that comes out of this will have to absolutely be verifiable and be enforceable. I can tell you, from sitting in my seat at the UN we’ve been in extensive discussions with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA, which would have ostensibly a key role in ensuring Iran lives up to any deal that it signs to, this – signs up to, there is no trust on this side. There is verified and enforceable provisions that are that are on the table from the US to ensure they never have a nuke.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, that’s important in terms of enforcement. Does that mean if you actually get to a negotiated deal, and the UN’s nuclear watchdog would be very much in those details of going in and perhaps securing that enriched uranium. Does this mean you’re going to put a deal for approval before the United Nations? Is it going to be codified like that?
MIKE WALTZ: Well, I’ll tell you, there are dozens and dozens of resolutions over the years, not just the United States, the entire world, saying Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
MIKE WALTZ: We had snap back provisions that are in place now for global sanctions and that Iran cannot enrich so anything that would would change those resolutions would then need to come back before but let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Let’s see if the Iranians actually sign up to a very reasonable offer that is sitting on the table from the United States —
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah —
MIKE WALTZ: which is an off ramp from them, and also will ensure the region, the United States, Europe and the world, is never threatened by a regime with its hand on a nuclear button.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, so, but back to the point of who’s in charge. President Trump says he hopes they take the deal, that was the post this morning. But on Friday afternoon, he spoke to my colleague, Weijia Jiang, and he gave us an incredibly optimistic read. He said Iran had quote, agreed to everything, including to stop enriching uranium forever and to stop backs – backing all proxy groups like Hezbollah. He made it sound like it’s all been sorted out. So which is it? Was there an agreement with certain parts of the Iranian government, but now there are others in charge, or was he just, you know, I don’t know, speculating about something he hopes comes true?
MIKE WALTZ: Margaret, anybody who has dealt with the Iranians will tell you it is often two steps forward, three steps back. They’re incredibly slippery. They can’t be trusted. They cheated over the years, which is one of the reasons that President Trump withdrew us from the JCPOA. They were hiding sites. They were hiding capabilities, and this is why he made the bold decision —
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yep —
MIKE WALTZ: last year in operation midnight hammer, to just end it once and for all. And again, we have to take the perspective that we’re not waiting. We’re not trusting. We are reducing their capabilities. Their military is in shambles. Their missile program is in shambles, and now, hopefully diplomatically, they will do it the easy way, rather than the hard way, of finally giving up on this illegal ambition.
MARGARET BRENNAN: The Defense Intelligence Agency told Congress this past week, Iran has thousands of missiles and one way attack drones that can still threaten the United States. So there’s still a threat in certain ways. General Caine said on Thursday, the US is going to pursue Iranian flagged vessels or any vessel providing support, including those carrying Iranian oil. Beijing is the top customer. Are you going to start boarding vessels headed to to China? When do these operations begin?
MIKE WALTZ: Well, I’m not going to give – get into operational timelines, but I’ll tell you all options are on the table. The President is prepared to escalate, to de-escalate, he means it. When he said nothing that benefits Iran is coming out of the strait. And then on top of that, Secretary Bessent announced operation economic fury, where we are prepared to put secondary sanctions on banks who are transacting in illegal Iranian oil dollars. So we are truly putting maximum pressure on every aspect of the Iranian economy, and at some point they are going to see some level of common sense and pragmatism and say enough is enough with this nuclear obsession.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Is that the first step before you go back to combat? Because President Trump was talking about bombing power plants. Are the sanctions and the seizing of vessels —
MIKE WALTZ: Well, we’ve taken —
MARGARET BRENNAN: step one?
Mike Waltz: Well we’ve taken, you know, again, I’m not going to publicly sequence the steps, but the blockade was, was a tremendous step and has been tremendously effective, with dozens of ships turned around. Others that are already out on the water, our Pacific Command is prepared to interdict. We’re going after the banks. We’re going after this shadow fleet, one of which was run by a relative of Khamenei. So we are taking a number of steps. We’re even looking – our acting attorney general has made it very clear, he is going to start aggressively prosecuting, our threat finance unit is going —
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah —
MIKE WALTZ: after their illegal dollars. So this is a whole of government, full on press. I hope we don’t have to go back to a military option but President Trump’s made it very clear. And by the way, bridges, power plants that are run by the IRGC, which runs the entire military, are absolute legitimate military targets, not only now, but have been historically. That is a false, fake and ridiculous notion that this is some type of war crime.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, we’ll talk about that, and we’ll see if that happens. But Germany and other allies have said they will help the United States with that navigation through the Strait of Hormuz, eventually, once combat ends, but they said they need cover. They need an international mandate at the United Nations. Will Russia and China get on board? Are you trying to do that at the UN?
MIKE WALTZ: Well, as our Gulf Arab allies made it very clear at the UN, I guess that would be nice to have after the conflict, but they need help and are ready to take action now, particularly Bahrain, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, we had a historic resolution to the UN with 135 —
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah —
MIKE WALTZ: nations condemning Iran for its attacks on civilian infrastructure, on resorts, civilian airports, ports, shipping. That was truly tremendous. It’s disappointing the Russians and Chinese chose to side with Iran rather than our Gulf Arab allies —
(CROSSTALK BEGINS)
MARGARET BRENNAN: And you still lifted sanctions on Russia.
(CROSSTALK ENDS)
MIKE WALTZ: and freedom of navigation, but you’re going to see – yeah, you’re going to see continued action this coming week. The entire world is united that you – that a country cannot hold an international waterway and cannot hold the world’s economies hostage because it has a conflict with another country. You don’t see that in the Straits of Gibraltar, the Bering Strait, the Straits of Malacca, or any other international waterway. Iran is absolutely in the wrong here from a legal, diplomatic and economic standpoint.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Let me ask you about Lebanon. President Trump posted Friday that quote, Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are prohibited from doing so by the USA. Enough is enough. How is the US prohibiting ally Israel from bombing in Lebanon? And what is the United States doing to confiscate weapons from Hezbollah like, how are you helping the Lebanese military do that?
MIKE WALTZ: Well to answer your last question, first, the US contributed over $250 million to the Lebanese Armed Forces. This is a tremendous historic opportunity for Lebanon, the Lebanese government led by President Aoun, a former general, the head of the Lebanese Armed Forces, to take their country back. Finally, with Iran on its back foot and militarily devastated, with Syria —
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yep.
MIKE WALTZ: in a much better place, with the fall of the Assad regime and the effective diplomacy that we’ve had there, and from the pager and beeper operation to now, Hezbollah has never been in a worse place. This is a true moment, and it was a real honor for me to be at the opening of the —
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah.
MIKE WALTZ: first Israel – Israel Lebanon talks, first ever —
MARGARET BRENNAN: How are you going to prohibit Israel from bombing?
MIKE WALTZ: in modern history. So, we have – look, but Maragaret, we have diplomacy on the march in a number of places —
MARGARET BRENNAN: Uh-huh.
MIKE WALTZ: Backed, of course, by military strength —
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay.
MIKE WALTZ: but we have to take a moment to understand the magnitude of what’s going on.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Ambassador Waltz, we will be watching to see what happens in the coming days. Thank you for your time. This morning, Face the Nation will be back in a minute. Stay with us.
In a series of messages from his Truth Social account, President Trump notes IRGC officials continue to fire weapons into the Strait of Hormuz in an effort to disrupt commercial shipping lanes.
The leadership of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps are in a zero-sum status. Any change to the power structure of the country will likely mean the end to their power, life and status. The IRGC will not accept any terms and consistently portray themselves as martyrs for the regime.
The U.S. blockade of Iranian ports and shipping is creating a serious economic problem for the regime in Tehran, and the IRGC is trying to stop the situation of commercial vessel transit for anyone except Iran. (VIA Politico) – “Iran’s Supreme National Security Council issued a statement calling the blockade a violation of the ceasefire and said Iran would prevent “any conditional and limited reopening” of the strait.”
PRESIDENT TRUMP – “Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz — A Total Violation of our Ceasefire Agreement! Many of them were aimed at a French Ship, and a Freighter from the United Kingdom. That wasn’t nice, was it? My Representatives are going to Islamabad, Pakistan — They will be there tomorrow evening, for Negotiations. Iran recently announced that they were closing the Strait, which is strange, because our BLOCKADE has already closed it. They’re helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose with the closed passage, $500 Million Dollars a day! The United States loses nothing. In fact, many Ships are headed, right now, to the U.S., Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska, to load up, compliments of the IRGC, always wanting to be “the tough guy!” We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years. IT’S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END!” ~ President DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT TRUMP – “Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as an aircraft carrier, tried to get past our Naval Blockade, and it did not go well for them. The U.S. Navy Guided Missile Destroyer USS SPRUANCE intercepted the TOUSKA in the Gulf of Oman, and gave them fair warning to stop. The Iranian crew refused to listen, so our Navy ship stopped them right in their tracks by blowing a hole in the engineroom. Right now, U.S. Marines have custody of the vessel. The TOUSKA is under U.S. Treasury Sanctions because of their prior history of illegal activity. We have full custody of the ship, and are seeing what’s on board!” ~ President DONALD J. TRUMP
Posted originally on CTH on April 19, 2026 | Sundance
FBI Director Kash Patel appears on Fox News Sunday to discuss ongoing FBI issues with Maria Bartiromo.
Beginning with the issue of missing scientists, Kash Patel notes the FBI is “working with partners in various jurisdictions” to review each case and identify if something more nefarious is afoot. The questioning then shifts to an explosive accusation by The Atlantic about his drinking, partying and indulgences within his position. Patel notes he is going to sue the Atlantic for defamation.
Maria Bartiromo also asks if Kash Patel has seen any evidence of the 2020 election fraud as outlined by President Trump for several years. Patel notes he cannot talk about ongoing investigations but hints that more information is likely to come out within the next few weeks. WATCH:
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From my personal perspective, Kash Patel does like the indulgences that come with the office. However, I think the accusations against him are likely spurred by disgruntled FBI agents and DOJ officials with an axe to grind.
That said, it still doesn’t appear that Director Patel has his arms around the agency he leads, and it is not uncommon to find people within the Trump administration who are frustrated with ongoing dubious activity carried out by remnant FBI officials who are not being brought to heel.
Posted originally on CTH on April 19, 2026 | sundance
FBI Director Kash Patel appears on Fox News Sunday to discuss ongoing FBI issues with Maria Bartiromo.
Beginning with the issue of missing scientists, Kash Patel notes the FBI is “working with partners in various jurisdictions” to review each case and identify if something more nefarious is afoot. The questioning then shifts to an explosive accusation by The Atlantic about his drinking, partying and indulgences within his position. Patel notes he is going to sue the Atlantic for defamation.
Maria Bartiromo also asks if Kash Patel has seen any evidence of the 2020 election fraud as outlined by President Trump for several years. Patel notes he cannot talk about ongoing investigations but hints that more information is likely to come out within the next few weeks. WATCH:
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From my personal perspective, Kash Patel does like the indulgences that come with the office. However, I think the accusations against him are likely spurred by disgruntled FBI agents and DOJ officials with an axe to grind.
That said, it still doesn’t appear that Director Patel has his arms around the agency he leads, and it is not uncommon to find people within the Trump administration who are frustrated with ongoing dubious activity carried out by remnant FBI officials who are not being brought to heel.
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