In some cities, activities such as “blocking a walkway” or creating any sort of “temporary structure for human habitation” are also considered to be serious crimes.  And there are some communities that have even made it illegal to feed the homeless without an official permit.  Unfortunately, as the US economy continues to slow down the number of homeless people will continue to grow, and so this is a crisis that is only going to grow in size and scope.

Of course the goal of many of these laws is to get the homeless to go somewhere else.  But as these laws start to multiply all across the nation, pretty soon there won’t be too many places left where it is actually legal to be homeless.

We tend to think of the homeless as bearded old men with drinking problems, but the truth is that many of the homeless are children. In fact, the number of homeless children in the United States has risen by about 60 percent since the end of the last recession. If this is how we are going to treat some of the most vulnerable members of our society while things are still relatively stable, how are we going to be treating one another when the economy completely collapses?

Today, Amazon unveiled the Echo Look — a $199 voice-controlled camera designed for the fashion-forward. The sleek device listens for your command and quickly takes photos and videos of the outfit you’re wearing. It’ll even use AI to judge your outfit.

In a lot of ways, it’s at least a little creepy.

You’re basically paying Amazon for a microphone and camera to put in your bedroom.

And Amazon confirms that the photos are stored on its computers indefinitely, until you manually delete them.

They have begun to believe they have been shamed enough by Germany’s horrendous genocide. They want to move on...The saddest summary of the controversy over the Memorial came from the architect, Peter Eisenman. In an interview with the weekly Die Zeit he said that it couldn’t be built today. In his view the currents of xenophobia and anti-Semitism now flowing through the German body politic would not allow him to erect such a monument in the nation’s capital.

The principle that the Habermas generation spread, that victims of the Holocaust deserved permanent commemoration, has faded. “The social climate has changed,” Eisenman said. “Much of what was long considered to be accepted is now being questioned.”

Trump's calls to the two Asian leaders came two days after North Korea test-launched another missile that Washington and Seoul said was unsuccessful but which drew widespread international condemnation. Trump talked on Saturday night with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who was also invited to the White House. Duterte has been criticized by human rights groups for an anti-drug campaign in which more than 8,000 people have died.

A week ago, Trump spoke with the leaders of China and Japan on the North Korea issue. "We need cooperation at some level with as many partners in the area as we can get to make sure that we have our ducks in a row," White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told ABC's "This Week" earlier on Sunday.

"So if something does happen in North Korea, that we have everyone in line backing up a plan of action that may need to be put together with our partners in the area,” he said. "We have got to be on the same page."

“I know that the power, size and weight of Hungary is much smaller than that of the financial speculator, George Soros, who is now attacking Hungary,” Orbán said. “Despite ruining the lives of millions of European with his financial speculations, being penalized in Hungary for speculations, and who is an openly admitted enemy of the euro, he is so highly praised that he is received by the EU’s top leaders,” he said.

“I believe that George Soros must not be underestimated: he is a powerful billionaire of enormous determination who, when it comes to his interests, respects neither God nor man,” he said. Orbán said that Hungarians are in favor of “straight talk” and reject attempts to beat around the bush or hide behind diplomatic language when discussing important issues.

“We talk clearly and unambiguously, so everyone can understand, even if we know that this may not appeal to everyone,” he said. “We on the other hand are irritated by the restrained political language, unable to name things for what they are, that has become widespread in European public life nowadays.”

Dr Kaplan received his PhD in history from Cornell University. He was heavily influenced by historian Edward Whiting Fox. While more than a few will look at Dr Robert Kaplan’s assessment of Soros with incredulity, it is highly unlikely that even a rich, powerful man like Soros could have such a dominating influence over world affairs without state sponsorship of his activities.

Even Bill O’Reilly once called Soros, “Blofeld.” In the original Ian Fleming James Bond series, Blofeld was in charge of an underground, but very rich and powerful semi-fascist terrorist organization of sorts called Spectre.

Esther Poucher, a student and LGBT rights campaigner, asked him if he was planning on attending the Isle of Wight's first ever pride event. She wrote on Facebook: "He told us that he'd been invited, but wasn't intending to go. This is because (and this is a direct quote) he thinks that homosexuality is 'wrong' and 'dangerous to society'."

"At this answer, I had to leave. It's terrifying that in this age and point in our development as a society, there are still people that can't care enough about a person's wellbeing to just accept who they are."  She added: "I'm very angry and it is upsetting. He is someone who is representing the Isle of Wight. I do not want that person representing the island, because that opinion is not what we think here. My message to Mr Turner is that kind of opinion should be kept to himself."

"Safe space" and "no platform" movements have swept across campuses including campaigns to ban certain speakers who are deemed offensive. Speaking at an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the University of Buckingham, the UK’s first private university, he said it is crucial that universities are independent from Government.

“The problem comes from political correctness to some extent, which is the great blight of this age. A view is either politically correct or not, and if it is not, then it should not be heard.” He went on: “This is happening throughout the universities today, where it is pushed by students – they may not be the majority of students but they are very vocal and they have their way because of totally supine university authorities.”

According to the paper, Israel’s biggest selling daily, Trump will make the announcement during his upcoming visit to Israel, reportedly in late May — a trip the White House has confirmed it is “exploring.” He is also expected to express support for the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, the paper said.

Since Israel declared independence in 1948, US policy has been not to recognize any party as sovereign in any part of Jerusalem. During his election campaign, Trump vowed repeatedly to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, drawing fierce objections from the Palestinians. He will not announce an embassy move during his visit, the newspaper said, in its unsourced front page report.

Israel extended sovereignty to East Jerusalem and the Old City and claims the entire city as its capital; the Palestinians seek East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestinian state. Trump — expected to visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority during a lightning visit of around 36 hours in late May or early June — will be accompanied by his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, both among his closest advisers, the report said. His wife Melania is expected to remain in the US.

The president will likely combine the trip with visits to Jordan and Saudi Arabia, key players in any moves to establish regional peace. It will probably be timed to coincide with a NATO summit in Belgium on May 25. Such a summit would likely focus on the Saudi-proposed Arab Peace Initiative, which was endorsed by the Arab League in 2002, as the path toward reaching a final-status agreement.

Part of that framework includes a two-state outcome where Israel would withdraw from Palestinian-claimed territories and arrive at a “just” solution to the refugee issue in exchange for normalized ties with the entire Arab world. Yedioth Ahronoth said Netanyahu had already agreed to limit West Bank settlement building while Abbas had promised to try to curb Palestinian terror as confidence-building measures by both sides.

Now the status of Jerusalem is under threat of cultural Jihadism. The EU seems to be doing little about it. Some countries are even helping undermine their own civilizational values.

When UNESCO passed a Decision on Jerusalem in October last year, it did more than repeat the now too-usual anti-Semitic diatribe. It attacked the whole basis of Judeo-Christian civilization. The resolution tried to maintain that only Arabic/Muslim names were valid for Jerusalem. It simply wrote out any mention of any previous civilizations that attached their names to the Holy City.

Both Europeans and Israelis should be made well aware at this affront to their history and culture. Especially omitted from last year’s resolution were any names evoking the ancient Israelite and continuous Jewish heritage of the City. These should be well-known to all educators, scientists and all cultures familiar with the People of the Book.

Who came up with all this? The draft was submitted by Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, and Sudan, at the behest of the PA’s policy of cultural nihilism. This turns UNESCO’s role on its head. Such obscurantism is just what UNESCO was set up to oppose.

Egypt was rocked this month by two jihadist attacks on Christian churches on Palm Sunday, which left at least 45 dead and 126 injured. The pontiff also called on religious leaders themselves to “unmask the violence that masquerades as purported sanctity and is based more on the ‘absolutizing’ of selfishness than on authentic openness to the Absolute.”

All religious leaders have an obligation to denounce violations of human dignity and human rights, he said, and to “condemn” attempts to justify hatred in the name of religion, which are “idolatrous caricatures of God.”

“Peace alone, therefore, is holy and no act of violence can be perpetrated in the name of God, for it would profane his Name,” he said. Pope Francis urged his fellow religious leaders to take a strong and public stand against violence perpetrated in the name of their respective faiths.

“We are talking about the future of humanity. Today, a widespread war would destroy – I would not say half of humanity – but a good part of humanity, and of culture, everything, everything,” Francis said Saturday. “It would be terrible. I don't think that humanity today would be able to withstand it.”

“I call on, and will call on, all leaders, as I have called on leaders of various places, to work to seek a solution to problems through the path of diplomacy,” the pontiff said about the North Korea crisis, speaking aboard his plane as he returned to Rome from a trip to Egypt.

Speaking about North Korea on Saturday, Trump noted that neither China nor the US would welcome a further North Korean nuclear test. For some time now, it has been speculated that Pyongyang is getting ready to conduct its sixth nuclear test.

“I would not be happy,” Trump said in a CBS interview for Sunday’s Face the Nation. “If he [Kim Jong-un] does a nuclear test, I will not be happy. And I can tell you also I don’t believe that the president of China, who is a very respected man, will be happy either.”