The migrant issue is the key reason for introducing an EU army, according to comments PM Bohuslav Sobotka made on Monday during an annual address at Czech Foreign Ministry headquarters. “In the face of uncontrolled migration, even states in the center of Europe have realized that internal borders must be controlled… aside from better coordinated foreign and security policy, I also believe that in the long term, we will be unable to do without a joint European army,” he said, as cited by Radio Praha.

Sobotka returned to the issue of migration on Tuesday, saying that each EU member should be able to choose how many refugees to accept. “We don’t want a large Muslim community to form here, given the problems we’re seeing,” Sobotka told Pravo daily. An EU joint army would not rival NATO, but rather make the EU a “more actionable and reliable partner,” the Czech prime minister said.

The proposal was supported in Germany, where Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen told Deutschlandfunk radio that a “European army is the future” when commenting on Juncker’s statement.

Pew Research Center said Wednesday that 49 percent of what they term "nones" left their church and religion because they "don't believe." Another 20 percent said they don't like organized religion. Other reasons included "common sense" and a lack of belief in miracles. The survey is the latest from Pew that demonstrates a growing trend in America: more and more people are junking religion and many are giving up on God.

"About half of current religious 'nones' who were raised in a religion (49%) indicate that a lack of belief led them to move away from religion. This includes many respondents who mention 'science' as the reason they do not believe in religious teachings, including one who said 'I'm a scientist now, and I don't believe in miracles.' Others reference 'common sense,' 'logic' or a 'lack of evidence' – or simply say they do not believe in God."

“So, many of you might be asking yourselves, ‘So I’m at an overnight field trip, and I have student who’s biologically a male, identifies as a female, and we’ve worked with that student and her family, and that student wants to sleep in the dorms, or whatever sleeping arrangements are, with the females,’” Mr Mosier says in a video of the training session. “‘They don’t want to sleep in a room by themselves, they want to sleep with the rest of the females. So what do we do?’”

“And the answer is, they sleep with the females,” he said. “That’s not the easy answer; it’s the right answer. And in some cases, it’s going to cause issues, because … the private information piece doesn’t allow you to share that with parents of all of the other campers. Right? So that’s difficult.”

In fact, if you go to just about any prominent mainstream news website on any particular day, it is inevitable that you will find an anti-Trump story on the main page right near the top, and it is usually accompanied by a pro-Clinton story nearby. Of course the big cable news networks are constantly spewing an endless stream of anti-Trump propaganda as well. In fact, it has been documented that CNN has spent literally half their time on anti-Trump stories on certain days.

The elite are desperate to keep Donald Trump out of the White House, and if that means shedding all notions of media objectivity and sicking their attack dogs on Trump day after day, then that is precisely what they are going to do.

So the nature of homosexuality and transsexualism is settled, incontrovertible, and beyond dispute? Yes, but only in newspapers, not in academia. A landmark survey of decades of research by two eminent scholars working in the United States claims that many of these assertions are simply not supported by the weight of evidence in scholarly journals. The report was released today by The New Atlantis, a well-known journal of science, technology, and ethics based in Washington DC. The editors have organised what is probably the best single summary of the scientific evidence on LGBT issues published to date.

“Sexual orientation and gender identity resist explanation by simple theories,” write psychiatrist Paul R McHugh and epidemiologist Lawrence S Mayer. “There is a large gap between the certainty with which beliefs are held about these matters and what a sober assessment of the science reveals. In the face of this complexity and uncertainty, we need to be humble about what we know and do not know.”

Similarly, the belief that gender identity is an innate, fixed human property independent of biological sex — so that a person might be a “man trapped in a woman’s body” or “a woman trapped in a man’s body” — is not supported either. Again, there are conceptual problems. Gender theorists argue that gender is not who a person is, but what they do – which underpins Facebook’s decision to offer 56 different gender options.

But this quickly becomes incoherent, with genders multiplying like snowflakes, each different, each inexplicable. They write:

“No degree of supporting a little boy in converting to be considered, by himself and others, to be a little girl makes him biologically a little girl. The scientific definition of biological sex is, for almost all human beings, clear, binary, and stable, reflecting an underlying biological reality that is not contradicted by exceptions to sex-typical behavior, and cannot be altered by surgery or social conditioning.”

This excellent study does not take sides on current legal and public policy controversies. But it does insist that debate needs to be informed by objective science, not partisan scholarship. It calls for more research on nearly 20 critical issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity. It’s a message that needs to be heard: too many lives are at stake.

Not since Hurricane Katrina in 2005 has the area suffered such a deluge. With that disaster in the back of everyone’s mind, many have questioned why folks didn’t evacuate ahead of time. The difference with this flood is that it wasn’t a hurricane. There was no warning and people had no reason to expect to need to evacuate their homes. It was just a rainstorm that didn’t stop.

More than 40,000 homes in Louisiana have been damaged and 4,000 people remain in shelters because they can’t go back to their homes. 13 people have died due to the flooding and 75% of the homes in Livingston Parish have been completely destroyed, but it seems that these facts are irrelevant to the country. Last week, supplies had to be air-dropped to over a thousand motorists who became stranded for more than 24 hours by floodwaters as they were trying to evacuate the area.

Many of the rescues have been undertaken by groups of citizens called The Cajun Navy. The people of the area have pulled together and local fishers, hunters, and professional guides launched their boats to help the over-burdened police rescue efforts.

Guess which politician showed up with a truckload of supplies to help Louisiana flood victims? Three guesses, and the first two don’t count. Especially if they are Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama. In one bright spot, Presidential hopeful Donald Trump canceled a fund-raiser in New York to fly to Louisiana with his running mate, Mike Pence, where they were warmly welcomed by flood victims. A local resident said in a Facebook discussion about the visit: “Trump brought an 18 wheeler load of clothes, food, and toys and sanitary items. And gave our local community a huge donation all out of his pocket, he also took time to pass out the goods and even went out to the damaged homes.”

Instead of assistance, a united front, and an outpouring of love, flood victims are being forced to pay for permits to begin repairing their homes, adding further insult to injury. Are you disgusted yet?

But there are still tens of thousands of abandoned dwellings that remain standing, and some have sold for as little as one dollar in recent years. Once Detroit was the envy of the entire planet, but now it has become a global joke and in other countries they love to do news stories about “the ruins of Detroit” to show how rapidly America is rotting and decaying. Sadly, Detroit is far from alone, because there are other formerly great manufacturing cities that have declined just as fast as Detroit has.

In the city of Detroit today, close to half the population is functionally illiterate, and one survey found that 60 percent of all children in the city are living in poverty. It has been reported that 40 percent of the street lights do not work, and it is a very frightening place to be after dark. And don’t count on the police to help you. The size of the police force in Detroit has been reduced by about 40 percent over the years, and it has been estimated that it takes the Detroit police an average of 58 minutes to respond to a call.

If it was just one major city where all of these things were happening, that would be bad enough. Sadly, the truth is that what is happening in Detroit is happening all over the nation. In fact, St Louis and Memphis now have higher gun crime rates than Detroit does… What has already happened to Detroit is slowly happening to the entire country, but we never seem to learn from our past mistakes.

Prices of both government and corporate debt have been driven to new records as low interest rates and central bank responses, such as quantitative easing, have been deployed. Low rates push returns on cash lower and cause the price of income-generating assets to rise.

Quantitative easing, which has involved central banks buying bonds, has added significantly to demand. As prices rise, yields have fallen. Yields on benchmark UK 10-year Gilts fell to 0.5 percent this week, a new low. The market rates on some government debt are negative, meaning buyers are paying to invest.

In a letter to his investors, reported by CNBC, Mr Singer said the situation now “is in many ways the most peculiar period we have faced in 39 years". He expressed amazement that investors would be willing to buy bonds at current prices.

Italy could prove to be the next nation to leave the Brussels bloc, according to Mr Stiglitz, a former chief economist at the World Bank and senior advisor to president Bill Clinton. The country’s banks are weighed down by more than £300 billion of bad debt but cannot be bailed out under EU rules unless creditors take a financial cut first.

Embattled prime minister Matteo Renzi says he will resign if he loses the October referendum on constitutional reform, which could allow the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, which has promised the public it will hold a vote on whether or not to remain in the Euro. The expert says an “amicable divorce” must be considered to avoid a “political cataclysmic event like Brexit”. In his new book, 'The Euro: How A Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe' Stiglitz also advises Germany and Greece should pull out as member states.

Mr Stiglitz said: “In other words, the Eurozone’s member countries are democracies and one sees increasing hostility to the Euro, which is unfortunately spilling over to a broader hostility to the broader European project and liberal values. That’s going to be the end.”