But sceptics and even alien investigators quickly slammed the event suggesting the picture in fact showed a mummified child in a museum exhibit. They were also suspicious as only copies of the original 1940s slide purporting to show the alien were shown at the conference which took place on the 20th anniversary of a previous 'Roswell hoax' when fake images alleging to show a secret US military autopsy on an alien corpse were released and later proved to be false.

Now one of the key players in investigating the so-called 'Roswell Slides' who put his name to them being genuine snaps of a dead alien, has been forced into a public apology. Tony Braglia, a world-leading UFO researcher, yesterday issued a statement saying it has been established the picture was of a Native American mummified child.

He said: "I must offer my sincerest and deepest apologies to the Native American people of the Southwestern United States. One of their children, a dead child from well over a century ago, was made a spectacle. Whoever you are, you deserve to be extended dignity and respect." It was a steep climbdown from comments he made before the unveiling when he insisted it came from outer space.

After all, China has been the kingpin player igniting this massive bear market plague that has spread throughout the world, all the way from Canada to Brazil. And contrary to popular myth, the US certainly has no immunity against China's rippling troubles. Come bull or bear market here, it's time to look at the storm brewing overseas… Indeed, China's pending market meltdown has been called “the scariest threat to stocks since 2009.”

CNN Money reports: "An economic slowdown in China is as large of a catalyst in investors' minds as anything we've seen going back to the financial crisis," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities. China matters so much because its explosive growth fueled the rest of the world. A huge appetite for goods and raw materials lifted economies in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia and elsewhere. "If China gets a cold, the rest of Asia gets the flu," said Peter Kenny, chief market strategist at The Clear Pool Group, a financial technology firm.

Two major problems facing China today include China's slowing demand (especially when it comes to oil and gas) whilst they hammer away, developing infrastructure that doesn't seem urgently needed. Countless developing nations are co-dependent on China being a big customer for their resources: Brazil, the Philippines, South Africa, Chile, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand, to name a few. Lately, that demand has nosedived. Hence, all this increased economic strife among China's usual resource sellers.

Activity in the country's factories has subsequently dropped at its fastest rate for at least three years in August, as domestic and export orders plummeted. What we do know for sure is that China's combined exports and imports fell a staggering 8.1% in the first nine months of the year from the same period in 2014, well below the full-year official target of 6% growth.

Additionally, even the IMF believes China's growth will slow down to 6.3% compared to the estimated 6.8% growth rate quoted to represent 2015. But chief global economist of Citigroup Willem Buiter isn't quite buying that either. In another pessimistic outlook, Buiter said, “We consider China to be at high and rapidly rising risk of a cyclical hard landing,” citing excess capacity and high debt loads.

The issue for all empires is how to pay for the cost of conquest and maintenance of empire, while keeping the population happy at home. Empires require enormous resources to fund a perpetual warfare/welfare state. For Rome, there were soldiers and fortifications to pay abroad and “bread and circuses” (panem et circenses) to fund at home. For Rome, the denarius was the currency used to pay for it all.

In the 20th century, the first world superpower since the Roman Empire emerged - the United States of America. The US was also a silver empire with billions of silver coins circulating among its citizens. US dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollars were minted of 89.24%-90% silver from 1794-1964.

In 1964 the US discontinued the issuance of silver certificates that allowed holders to redeem them for physical silver held at the U.S. Treasury. Silver was removed from newly minted US dimes, quarters and half dollars by an act of President Johnson the following year.

“If you end up adding to that $18.5 trillion the unfunded civilian and military pensions and retiree healthcare, the additional underfunding for Social Security, the additional underfunding for Medicare, various commitments and contingencies that the federal government has, the real number is about $65 trillion rather than $18 trillion, and it’s growing automatically absent reforms,” Walker told host John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on New York’s AM-970 in an interview airing Sunday.

The former comptroller general, who is in charge of ensuring federal spending is fiscally responsible, said a burgeoning national debt hampers the ability of government to carry out both domestic and foreign policy initiatives.

“If you don’t keep your economy strong, and that means to be able to generate more jobs and opportunities, you’re not going to be strong internationally with regard to foreign policy, you’re not going to be able to invest what you need to invest in national defense and homeland security, and ultimately you’re not going to be able to provide the kind of social safety net that we need in this country,” he said.

He said Americans have “lost touch with reality” when it comes to spending.

There was also an interruption to what is billed as a “continuous carrier presence” in the Asia-Pacific region after the USS George Washington left in July and its replacement did not get there until the fall. Earlier this week, senior Navy officials publicly acknowledged there will be more gaps next year. The basic problem is simple: The Navy only has 10 aircraft carriers, one short of what senior officers say is required.

"We require 11 aircraft carriers to meet our full range of military operational requirements,” the Navy’s Assistant Secretary for Research, Development and Acquisition, Sean Stackley, told the House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee on Wednesday. "Today we're at 10 — and we're at 10 that are highly stressed because they have been driven hard," Stackley said.

This shortage also comes at the same time US leaders are attempting to reassure Gulf Arab allies that they are willing and able to counter growing Iranian influence in the region. The day after the USS Theodore Roosevelt left the Persian Gulf on October 9, Iran fired off a ballistic missile in violation of international law.

In a recent interview on Fox News, Cruz was addressing Obama’s action — which he took in the weeks following the 2014 midterm elections in November — on the heels of a ruling by a federal judge in Texas ordering a temporary halt to President Obama’s executive action.

US District Judge Andrew Hanen, appointed to the federal bench by President George W Bush, issued his order February 16. It puts on hold Obama’s action to prevent up to 5 million people residing illegally in the country from being deported.

In his interview, Cruz said Obama’s administration was ignoring the law and the judge’s order:

“One of the things it points out is the president has claimed, rather absurdly, that the basis of his authority is ‘prosecutorial discretion.’ That he’s simply choosing not to prosecute 4.5 million people here illegally,” Cruz told Fox News, as quoted by The Associated Press.

“But what the district court concluded, quite rightly, is they’re doing far more than that. The administration is printing work authorizations. It is affirmatively acting in contravention of federal law. Basically, what it’s doing is counterfeiting immigration documents, because the work authorizations it's printing are directly contrary to the text of federal law. It is dangerous when the president ignores federal law.”

When the US military established a no-fly zone west of Los Angeles for a week, it raised the eyebrows of many. But nobody expected this. The unarmed Trident II missile that was fired from the USS Kentucky normally carries a nuclear warhead, and this launch was so visible that it could even be seen by people living in Arizona and Nevada…

Once the missile was launched, photographs and videos of this strange phenomenon were very quickly posted on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Others alerted law enforcement agencies and their local news stations. Clearly this was done at a time and in a location that would create a massive amount of attention. So what kind of message was the government trying to send?

Was this a message to the American people?

Some are suggesting this, but I tend to agree with Mike Adams of Natural News that this was likely a message to our enemies… Last night’s test launch of the Trident missile over Orange County was staged near a high population area for a tactical reason: To have as many witnesses (and videos) as possible, sending a very visible warning message to China that says, “We can destroy you if you don’t back off.”

The parents told employees of the Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center in Katy, situated west of Houston, to call their daughter by a masculine name and refer to her as a boy. Her haircut was also a masculine one. Among the two fired workers was Madeleine Kirksey, an author of a Christian book. She said the problem was more not with the transgender issue, but with explaining the need to refer to a little girl as a boy and calling her “John”, which she apparently was not, Breitbart reports.

The worker said she didn’t believe it “was our job” to drown out the issue of the so-called gender identity on small children, according to Breitbart. The school should force their beliefs neither upon their very young students, nor parents, nor employees, Kirksey added. “I don’t think we should be talking to other people’s children who are under the age of 18 about being transgender,” Kirksey said in an interview with Fox26 in Houston. This is the point both of the fired workers agreed on.

After being fired, Kirksey reported to Child Protective Services that the six-year-old girl was being told she is a boy, as she believes it is up to a specialist to determine whether the girl is confused or if the gender issue is being forced by her male parents.

The parents said okay, but told them they couldn’t go in the water, according to The Cape Cod Times. By the time a lifeguard spotted the children, they were — gasp — wet from the rain. What’s more, they were “standing around a food truck with no adults in charge.” Thankfully, the police were called before any of that wetness and unsupervised food trucking could escalate into something worse.

The cop decided to file reports of suspected abuse or neglect in both Massachusetts and New York. And, for good measure, she also “applied for criminal complaints against them in Orleans District Court.”

Think that’s insane? It gets worse:

“Washington State School District Bans Game of “Tag” to “Ensure Physical, Emotional Safety of Students”

“The “Nanny States of America” – Mother Arrested for Allowing 7-Year-Old Son Walk to Park Alone”

“11-Year-Old Boy Taken Away by CPS for Being Left in Backyard Alone for 90 Minutes; Parents Charged with Neglect”

“Maryland Parents Being Investigated for Neglect After Letting Their Kids Walk Home from Playground Alone”

“A Winter Wonderland of Fear – Cities Across the US Move to Ban Unregulated Sledding”

Meanwhile, still no bankers in jail.

Geologists studying the volcano, which is responsible for the most deadly eruption in US history, have discovered a second enormous magma chamber buried far beneath the surface. This giant pool of molten rock, which lies between seven to 25 miles (40km) below the surface, is connected to a slightly smaller chamber that lies directly beneath the mountain. The researchers also believe a second neighbouring volcano - Mount Adams - may also be fed from the deeper magma chamber.

They said a series of distinct earthquakes in the months leading up to the massive eruption on 18 May 1980, which killed 57 people, may have been caused by the pumping of magma from the lower to the upper chamber. This caused the pressure inside the upper chamber to increase dramatically until it erupted explosively.

It brought to mind that punishment has become a primary feature of American, indeed Western, society. A baker in Colorado was punished because he would not bake a wedding cake for a homosexual marriage. A county or state clerk was punished because she would not issue a marriage license for a homosexual marriage. University professors are punished because they criticize Israel’s inhumane treatment of Palestinians. Whistleblowers are punished — despite their protection under federal law — for revealing crimes of the US government. And children are punished for being children.

But not by their parents. Police can slam children around and seriously injure them. But parents must not lay a hand on a child. If a child gets spanked, as everyone in my generation was, in comes the Child Protective Services Gestapo. The child is seized, put into “protective custody,” and the parents are arrested. The CPS Gestapo receives a federal bonus for every child that they seize, and they want the money.

About all parents can do today is to restrict TV or video game playing time. Even this is dicey, because the kids are taught at school to report abusive behavior of parents. For many kids being told what to do by parents is abusive behavior. Kids have learned that they can pay back parents for disciplining them by reporting the parents to teachers or by themselves calling CPS. Kids who retaliate in this socially approved manner do not realize that they run a high risk of ruining the lives of their parents as well as their own by ending up in foster care where the risk of sexual abuse is present.

As society has made it possible for kids to prevail over parents, the kids think this right also applies to teachers, school administrators, and School Resource Officers, psychopaths with police badges who maintain discipline with force and violence. The kids quickly discover, as Shakara discovered in her encounter with Ben Fields, that whereas parents are constrained from using corporal punishment, School Resource Officers are not. Shakara’s desk was overturned as she sat in it. She was slammed onto the floor, dragged across the floor and handcuffed. Any parent who did that would be facing jail time.

The police violence extends beyond the schools. Any American unfortunate enough to have a police encounter risks being tasered, beaten, arrested, and even murdered. Protesters, war and otherwise, are beaten, tear gassed, arrested. The American police state is working hard to criminalize all criticism of itself. Violence has become the defining hallmark of the United States. It is even the basis of US foreign policy. In the 21st century millions of peoples have been killed and displaced by American violence against the world.

Furious Germans condemned Ms Merkel, waving German flags and chanting 'Merkel must go' and 'Traitor to the people'. Around 5,000 people turned out for the anti-migration march, organised by the eurosceptic, populist-nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party under the banner 'Asylum has its limits - red card for Merkel'. 'We are demonstrating against the asylum chaos caused by Angela Merkel,' AfD member and European Parliament deputy Beatrix von Storch said at the rally.

Five counter-protests in support of migrants saw a turn-out of around 800 people, despite organisers' hopes that several thousand would attend. Activists protesting the anti-immigration protest found themselves targeted by police wielding pepper spray, as they attempted to break up the simultaneous demonstrations. More than 40 people were arrested and one officer was lightly wounded after the violence broke out.

Tommy Robinson, the 32-year-old founder of the far-right group, told protesters: 'Do not let Germany be dragged back to chaos and destruction. All of your progress is now threatened. Your current chancellor, Angela Merkel, seems to be handing out the birth right of German citizens like she is handing out candy to children.'

He continued: 'I encourage you people to refuse the shame game. Refuse to feel guilty. Germany is not obliged to save the refugee crisis. This current immigration is an invasion. Our borders are being overrun. There is little or no control. A country that cannot control its borders will soon not be a country.'

The list of demands runs 10 items long — the same as the US Constitution’s Bill of Rights — and also calls for an end to arrests and deportations for “all law-abiding undocumented Americans.”

The document was circulated by United We Stay, which is a group of illegal immigrants, first generation Americans and human rights activists pushing for changes to immigration law.

The 10 points include a demand that they be accorded respect; calls for citizenship rights and an immediate deferment of deportations; in-state tuition at public colleges; “wage equality”; medical care; and protection against deportation if illegal immigrants report a crime as a witness.