"Europe is extremely sick and must start dealing with its problems extremely quickly, or else there may be an accident," Deutsche Bank’s David Folkerts-Landau said, according to the newspaper. "I’m no doomsday prophet, I am a realist."

With Italian banks weighed down by 360 billion euros of soured loans, the government has been sounding out regulators on ways to shore up lenders amid a renewed selloff after Britain voted to leave the European Union. Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, a former member of the European Central Bank’s executive board who now chairs Societe Generale SA, said Wednesday that Italy’s banking crisis could spread to the rest of Europe and rules limiting state aid to lenders should be reconsidered to prevent greater upheaval.

"I do not expect a second financial crisis like in 2008," Folkerts-Landau said, according to Welt. "The banks are much more stable today and have more equity. What we face this time is a slow, long downward spiral."

Gladio became noted for recruiting and financing right-wing extremist groups that could be directed to commit acts of violence and terrorism against their own governments and citizens, thereby creating public anger against anyone who opposed the existing regimes.

In 1996, the CIA expanded its policy of using right-wing extremist groups for this purpose and also began using Islamic extremist organizations. This was called Gladio-B and became the force that has destabilized and overturned countries in the Middle East since then. A good introduction to this history is Gladio B: The Origins of NATO’s Secret Islamic Terrorist Proxies. Even Wikipedia has a fairly unfiltered version of this dark record.

The news of an organized attack against police in Dallas this week is shocking in itself but, when you realize that almost everything about it fits the Gladio template, it is jaw dropping. All one has to do is change the description of groups being recruited from Islamic to Black, and everything else is in place.

Is the same strategy for national destabilization and the creation of hatred and violence now being used against the American people?

Meanwhile, US government-led Nato forces have for some time sought military encirclement of Russia, with US and Nato forces now moving up to its very borders on the false pretext of imaginary ‘Russian aggression’, while new military bases and movement of high tech military equipment, new military bases, and engagements in the South China sea threaten to trigger war with China.

It should be emphasized that – unlike the other victims of US military aggression – Russia and China are powerful nuclear armed states, with the current aggressive moves against them bringing a real danger of nuclear war. The danger of a planet-destroying nuclear war is now at a higher pitch than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis.

Local authorities saw their first “violators” on the same day as the ban was enforced. Nora Illi, a member of the Islamic Central Council Switzerland, and a French-Algerian businessman Rachid Nekkaz stood accused of deliberately breaching the law, Swiss Info reported. Nora Illi was caught wearing a full-length Burqa in Ticino’s city of Locarno. She was accompanied by an avid opponent of burqa bans Nekkaz.

As the law came into force on Friday, the Saudi Arabian embassy in Bern posted a warning for their citizens planning to visit Switzerland. "The embassy wishes to emphasize that the Ticino cantonal authorities in south eastern Switzerland have announced that as of July 1, 2016 they will start to enforce the burka (niqab) ban in public places in the canton, including in Lugano, Locarno, Magadino, Bellinzona, Ascona and Mendrisio, " the embassy wrote on Twitter.

It urged the citizens “to respect and conform to Swiss rules and regulations in order avoid all problems.”

“All individuals, including students, have a constitutional right to bodily privacy protected by the Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution that forbids the government from placing them in situations where they will expose their unclothed or partially clothed bodies to people of the opposite sex,” the lawsuit states.

It was filed by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of Highland Local School District in Ohio’s Morrow, Knox and Delaware counties. There, officials decided to provide private facilities to a boy who says he’s a girl, rather than letting him use the girls’ facilities.

Despite a multitude of special accommodations, the guardian for the troubled, young student filed a complaint with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) because the district will not provide the child with access to intimate facilities designated for the opposite sex. The OCR immediately demanded the district violate the privacy of every other student who is not claiming to be the opposite sex.

“As a result, Highland faces an impossible choice: capitulate to defendants’ demands and sacrifice the dignity and privacy rights of their students; or protect those rights and watch defendants strip away more than a million dollars each year in federal funding devoted to special-education programs, lunches for underprivileged children, and educational advancement,” the complaint said.

“The court should resolve this dilemma, declare that defendants’ new Title IX rule is an unlawful executive-branch attempt to rewrite federal law, enjoin defendants from enforcing that rule, and protect Highland from having to cut programs that serve underprivileged children and students struggling to learn.”

Even before British voters decided to end their nation's 43-year-old European Union membership, Germany announced plans to expand its army for the first time in 25 years, with Berlin also quietly increasing its role in international military missions.

Germany's forces stand at 180,000 soldiers, but that is a huge fall from a figure approaching 600,000 at the time of re-unification in 1990. Berlin's military boost should help fill at least part of the vacuum in Europe left by Britain — a pillar of the EU's defence capabilities. On Friday, NATO leaders meet in Warsaw with the alliance's two-day summit likely to provide an early glimpse of the enhanced political, economic and financial power that Germany should command in Europe in the wake of the British vote.

After living in the shadow of London for decades, Britain's move should also allow the German financial capital, Frankfurt, to shine as a global market hub and emerge at the heart of European financial life.

The EU leadership has just produced a white paper titled “Shared Vision, Common Action.” It has plainly been in the works for months but was deliberately withheld until mere days after the Brexit vote. It does not call for an EU army, but it would create the nucleus of one. The purpose of that army would not be to complement NATO but eventually to displace it.

Why does the EU need its own army, when NATO forces have successfully defended Europe’s peace and prosperity for almost seven decades? One may well wonder. But our guess is that the EU elites consider this immensely expensive, potentially destabilizing exercise necessary in order to drive out the Americans, finally and decisively — even at the risk of drawing the Russians back in, indeed even at the risk of no longer keeping the Germans down.

The deputy vice president of Die Linke, the Bundestag's third main party, said it would be "arrogant" to not trust the electorate with the decision. Currently, Germany's constitution does not allow national referendums to take place, except for special exceptions. She said: "You shouldn't arrogantly believe that people aren't capable of forming their own opinion."

"Many British people might have been lied to during the referendum campaign, but this was also a risk during elections. If we invalidate all elections in Europe in which the government had previously spoken of doing the opposite, of what they are doing afterwards, then we would have as good as no government left." The left-wing politician has already campaigned for referendums for individual EU contracts and the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

The German Chancellor has come under increasing pressure to hold an EU Referendum ever since Britain voted to leave the bloc two weeks ago. But this is the first time anybody from the left has called for the vote. Far right figures in the Alternative for Germany party promised to call their own vote if they clutch power in the country's general election in autumn next year. A party spokesman branded Brussels a "bureaucracy monster", before adding: "Next year the AfD will enter the German parliament and Dexit will be top on our agenda".

As many Alliance members become increasingly nervous over Russia’s incursions into neighboring territories and demand a harsher tone with Moscow, powerful voices in Berlin have pushed in the opposite direction. “What we shouldn’t do now is inflame the situation further with loud saber-rattling and warmongering,” German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told Germany’s Bild last month. “Anyone who believes that a symbolic tank parade on the Alliance’s Eastern frontier will create security is mistaken.”

As NATO leaders convene in Warsaw this weekend for a summit to debate the Alliance’s stance on Russia, Germany’s increasingly dovish position is frustrating efforts to present a united front.

While Western sanctions and efforts to bolster NATO’s presence in the Baltics and Poland enjoy support across most of Europe, in Germany the measures are the subject of constant criticism at the highest levels of government. Given Germany’s political clout in Europe and status as a pillar of NATO, its internal squabbling on Russia has unnerved many of the countries that are counting on its help.

Steinmeier’s comments came at the conclusion of a 10-day NATO military exercise in Poland, the largest such maneuver ever staged by the Alliance. Though Steinmeier didn’t specifically criticize the exercise, his comments were widely interpreted as a broadside against it — an impression his ministry did little to counter. “Such developments lead to uncontrollable situations, all the way up to war,” Gernot Erler, a Steinmeier deputy and the government’s point man on Russia, warned a few days later.

This UN-LGBT Enforcer will travel the world imposing the sexual revolution on peoples and churches and countries who do not want it. It will be under the guise of protecting LGBT people from discrimination. But that is a lie. The purpose will be aimed at anyone who believes in traditional sexual morality and to stamp out that belief.

The New United Nations LGBT Enforcer will determine, without a doubt, that your religious beliefs are nothing more than hate. The new UN-LGBT Enforcer will come with the might and muscle of the United Nations, the European Union, and the United States and with the power to enforce this radical new belief.

Excerpts from the Pope’s speech:

“I know that you are gathered in Munich, Bavaria, from many Movements and Groups, for your meeting called “Encounter – Reconciliation – Future”. You are right. It is time to get together, to face the problems of our day with a true European spirit. Apart from some visible walls, other invisible walls are being strengthened which tend to divide our continent. These walls are being built in people’s hearts. They are walls made of fear and aggression, a failure to understand people of different backgrounds or faith. They are walls of political and economic selfishness, without respect for the life and dignity of every person.

Europe finds itself in a complex and highly mobile world, which is ever more globalised and therefore ever less Eurocentric. If we are aware of these momentous issues, then we must have the courage to say: we need change! Europe is called to reflect and to ask itself whether its immense heritage, so permeated with Christianity, belongs in a museum or is still able to inspire culture and to offer its treasures to the whole of humankind.

Europe’s history is an ongoing encounter between Heaven and earth. Heaven indicates openness to the Transcendent, to God, which has always been characteristic of European people. Earth represents their practical and concrete ability to address situations and problems.

Together for Europe? Today this is more than ever necessary. In a Europe made up of many nations, you bear witness to the fact that we are children of one Father and brothers and sisters to one another. You are a precious seed of hope, so that Europe can rediscover its vocation to contribute to the unity of all."

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was interviewed last year by Thomas Roberts of MSNBC. Mr. Roberts openly engages in homosexual acts and wedded his homosexual paramour in 2012. Pelosi boasted of having brought her grandchildren to watch when she received an award from the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund. She told Roberts she wanted the children to know that marriage between two men or two women was consistent with Catholic teaching. Of course, she is absolutely and unquestionably wrong about that claim.

I know that using words as heresy in an age of political correctness - and in the face of a growing syncretism within segments of what still calls itself Christianity - may be considered controversial or inappropriate for civil discourse. However, I write as a concerned Catholic Christian who works with other Christians, across confessional lines.

I am regularly asked by Christians of other traditions, churches and communities, how someone like Nancy Pelosi can continue to say such things in public and actually claim it is the teaching of the Catholic Church, without facing any repercussions from the leadership of the Catholic Church. In the past, I have written about Pelosi's fundamental error concerning the dignity of every human life and her open and notorious rejection of the teaching of the Catholic Church on the fundamental Right to Life. I have also engaged her on the proper understanding and formation of conscience.

I accused her of scandal, "For decades, Nancy Pelosi has enacted and vocally defended laws that have led to the destruction of millions of innocent human beings by procured abortion, while claiming to be a "devout Catholic." She even received the top award from Planned Parenthood, named after racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger. This is the very epitome of scandal."

Finally, I made this assertion, "It is one thing for someone to claim to be a Catholic and openly dissent from the Church. When that person is an influential leader and does so in such a public manner, however, she is committing what the Catholic Catechism calls a "grave offense which may lead others into spiritual death"."

It is time to take the verbal gloves off once again - especially, as the 2016 election campaign begins in the United States of America.

The sniper attack on police broke out at around 8.45pm while hundreds of people gathered to protest after police shot dead two black men in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St Paul, Minnesota. Mayor Mike Rawlings said one member of the public was also wounded in the gunfire. The attack was one of the worst mass shootings of police in the USA's history. The identities of the suspects are not yet known but police said the ambush appeared carefully planned and executed. Police chief Brown said the snipers fired "ambush style" upon the officers.

Three suspected snipers have been arrested and a fourth, who told police negotiators he intended to hurt more law enforcement officials, has been killed.The suspect told police "the end is coming" and that more police were going to be hurt and killed. Brown said the suspect also told police "there are bombs all over the place in this garage and downtown". One woman was taken into custody in the parking garage where the standoff occurred.

The use of force by police against African-Americans in cities from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore and New York has sparked periodic and sometimes violent protests in the past two years and has spawned the Black Lives Matter movement. Anger has intensified when the officers involved in such incidents have been acquitted of charges or not charged at all.