Mediterranean economies have been devastated by an EU-wide policy of austerity enforced from Berlin, which has led to massive youth unemployment and soaring poverty. Fiscally conservative Germany, which is the EU’s largest economy, is reluctant to loosen the purse strings and authorise the huge injection of cash many other member states need to kickstart their fortunes.

But policies which have benefited German industry and exports have caused economic oblivion in many parts of southern Europe, and now the rest of the continent seems to have had enough. The leaders of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta are planning to meet in Athens next month to forge a new anti-austerity alliance with the aim of wrestling back control of the European Central Back (ECB), which sets Eurozone fiscal policy, from Berlin.

It is being headed up by Greek premier Alexis Tsipras, who has frequently clashed with both Mrs Merkel and Brussels over the crippling austerity which has brought his country to its knees.

"Merkel on the ropes!" screeched one headline, after the recent attacks in Germany, before going on to predict confidently that her "premiership is hanging by a thread". "Calls for Chancellor Angela Merkel to stand down grow," wrote another paper. But what's interesting about these and similar articles is that they were written by English-speaking journalists reporting from outside Germany.

And in both these cases, the only evidence that Merkel's government was apparently about to fall was a video filmed by Russian TV of right-wing extremists protesting in Berlin. No polling data. No evidence. Just that video. You can't necessarily blame the journalists. From the outside the narrative makes sense. Merkel allows Germany to take in more than a million asylum seekers from the Middle East. A year later there are violent Islamist attacks committed by migrants. So it stands to reason that her government is on the verge of collapse.

The problem is, though, the facts really get in the way of that story. Almost 70% of Germans do not think that Merkel's refugee policy contributed to the attacks, and the violence has barely had any effect on support for her centre-right party, making it unlikely that anyone else will lead the next government, let alone topple the present one.

Angela Merkel's idea of government is top-down, trust-us-we-know-best, which in this age of referendums and social media is not exactly fashionable. But she's not following, she's leading. Not everyone agrees with her, and her approach is not risk-free. Merkel, though, is not changing her mind. And, for now at least, she's staying exactly where she is.

David Barton has a book called “Three felonies a day” where he points out the insane mass of laws that we’re expected to abide by, but could not possibly know or understand. How does this make any sense? I mean seriously, with the law this complex it means that cops can arrest anyone they want because everyone is constantly breaking laws without even realizing it. This takes power away from the judicial system and puts it in the hands of cops, which more and more makes them the judge, jury, and executioner.

The US legal system is abusive and anti-human. It’s written by lawyers, for lawyers and their clients. It bears little relevance to what everyday people want in regard to justice, and gets more off the mark by the day and lawyers re-write and append more and more laws at the behest of the people paying them. Big money owns the legal system. They create ridiculous standards, then the masses are held to them but they are not.

It’s a selective-enforcement system that does not benefit the masses. And the US has over 1% of it’s overall population incarcerated right now, and another 1% on probation from having just been incarcerated. We have some of the longest prison sentences in the developed world. This system seems designed to abuse us, the American public.

World History is planned in stages to happen gradually as the population is conditioned to accept whatever the master plan calls for. Accordingly, Hitler was stage one, The European Union is stage two. I think Hitler knew this and saw the new Germany (the fourth Reich) coming out of the World War II ashes. The fact that Europe and Germany feign anti-Hitler phobia is meaningless. Changing characters, actors, names, etc, in no way changes the plan. It all happens crystal clear that Hitler is winning big.

This in no way is intended as anti-Germanism. So-called American Democracy today is nothing less than Nazi socialism without the jack boots, torch light parades and the swastika. Human liberty is every bit as threatened in America today and the European Union as in Nazi Germany.

For more than a decade, professional snoops have been able to search troves of public and nonpublic records — known addresses, DMV records, photographs of a person’s car — and condense them into comprehensive reports costing as little as $10. Now they can combine that information with the kinds of things marketers know about you, such as which politicians you donate to, what you spend on groceries, and whether it’s weird that you ate in last night, to create a portrait of your life and predict your behavior.

IDI, a year-old company in the so-called data-fusion business, is the first to centralize and weaponize all that information for its customers. The Boca Raton, Florida, company’s database service, idiCORE, combines public records with purchasing, demographic, and behavioral data. Chief Executive Officer Derek Dubner says the system isn’t waiting for requests from clients — it’s already built a profile on every American adult, including young people who wouldn’t be swept up in conventional databases, which only index transactions. “We have data on that 21-year-old who’s living at home with mom and dad,” he says.

Dubner declined to provide a demo of idiCORE or furnish the company’s report on me. But he says these personal profiles include all known addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses; every piece of property ever bought or sold, plus related mortgages; past and present vehicles owned; criminal citations, from speeding tickets on up; voter registration; hunting permits; and names and phone numbers of neighbors. The reports also include photos of cars taken by private companies using automated license plate readers — billions of snapshots tagged with GPS coordinates and time stamps to help PIs surveil people or bust alibis.

Trump has doubled-down, and just released the most brutal, serious statement of his campaign. He explained exactly why President Barack Obama will go into the history books as our worst President, ever:

As Donald Trump explained on his Facebook page:

“Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi. Then they put Iran on the path to nuclear weapons. Then they allowed dozens of veterans to die waiting for medical care that never came.

"Hillary Clinton put the whole country at risk with her illegal email server, deleted evidence of her crime, and lied repeatedly about her conduct which endangered us all. They released criminal aliens into our country who killed one innocent American after another — like Sarah Root and Kate Steinle — and have repeatedly admitted migrants later implicated in terrorism.

They have produced the worst recovery since the Great Depression. They have shipped millions of our best jobs overseas to appease their global special interests. They have betrayed our security and our workers, and Hillary Clinton has proven herself unfit to serve in any government office.

She is reckless with her emails, reckless with regime change, and reckless with American lives. Our nation has been humiliated abroad and compromised by radical Islam brought onto our shores. We need change now.”

This is a powerful message from Trump, who is clearly still willing to fight for American greatness. The global elites can’t stand that he’s a billionaire who can’t be bought, which is why he’s able to speak the truth about Hillary Clinton and Obama. It is the most powerful argument that any candidate could make in 2016, and voters hear it loud-and-clear.

If Obama really believes those things are true, would he really just stand aside and hand the keys to the White House to Trump? Never before have I ever heard a sitting president claim that one of the major party candidates could not function as president. But that is what Obama has just done.

One document that I would refer you to is National Security Presidential Directive 51 which was put into effect during the Bush administration. It is all about “national continuity policy” and it defines a “catastrophic emergency” as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the US population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions”.

In such a scenario, the president would have almost unlimited power, and he would wield enormously powerful executive orders such as this one. If there was a big enough emergency, the president would potentially be able to declare martial law, suspend elections and essentially become a dictator. Let us hope that we never see such a thing play out in the United States of America.

In his most recent attempt to warn his Western counterparts about the impending danger of a new nuclear arms race, Putin told the heads of large foreign companies and business associations that Russia is aware of the United States’ plans for nuclear hegemony. Under the guise of following an anti-nuclear weapons policy, the Obama administration has announced plans for a $1 trillion nuclear weapons plan, which — let’s face it — is targeted at Russia.

There is no winner in a nuclear war between Russia and the United States. This has been not only confirmed but repeatedly warned about by atomic scientists who — if we are being honest — are the people whose opinion on this topic should matter the most. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that NASA scientists want to colonize the moon by 2022 — we may have to if we don’t drastically alter the path we are on.

As Albert Einstein famously stated: “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

“… abortion saddens me, period, but it seems to be something that is really pushed on minorities and provided to minorities especially as something that they should do,” Watson said. He pointed to Planned Parenthood’s founder Margaret Sanger and her eugenic push to exterminate people she deemed “unfit.” Today, “it’s working,” Watson said.

“We sit here and talk about advancing the black agenda, whatever that means, we talk about our interests, and what’s important to us – like having political power and advancement and all those things – and then we are turning around and we are killing our children,” Watson continued. “And we are buying the lie that it’s our personal decision to make.”

Planned Parenthood videos, Watson wasn’t shy about speaking up for unborn babies either. He posted on his Facebook wall:

“As horrific as it is, the issue isn’t really the sale of human parts. It’s the legal practice that allows this to even be a possibility. Killing children and simply discarding the leftovers is not any more acceptable than profiting off of them.”

This fact is clearly illustrated by the following stories in this week’s edition relating to the near hysteria being created by politicians and media pundits over the threat of mosquitoes infecting humans with the Zika virus.

The most important thing to understand in this issue is that there is no credible evidence that the Zika virus is the cause of the birth defects attributed to it by the media. However, there is a huge fortune to be made in tax-funding projects to bio-engineer new strains of mosquitoes, to conduct massive spraying programs, to develop new vaccines, to pass new laws to regulate human activity, and to launch so-called public-awareness programs to sensitize us to the danger.

And that doesn’t include the payola that flows into the pockets of politicians and public-health officials who cooperate with the profitable scam. Think for a moment about previous health scares over the Bird Flu, the Swine Flu, and the Ebola virus – none of which had scientific validity but which handsomely benefitted the scaremongers. And now, here we go again with Zika. Unfortunately, PT Barnum may have been right.