But damning statistics released today show that, if anything, the flaky accord has only served to further highlight the cavernous divisions emerging within the 28-nation bloc. An astonishing dossier reveals how, in the six weeks since the controversial migrant quotas were agreed, just 116 refugees have been relocated from Greece and Italy to two other member states.

Even more worryingly for Europhiles it also shows how some of the continent's biggest players - most notably France and Germany - have effectively reneged on the agreement already. As part of the September accord, European nations agreed to relocate 120,000 migrants over the next two years.

Britain has opted out of the controversial quota scheme, which was fiercely opposed by frontline member states including Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania. Critics had already argued that the relocation plan was wildly insufficient, given that 770,000 migrants have already lodged asylum claims across the EU this year.

The man currently running a distant second for the Democratic presidential nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, is a self-declared socialist, and most of his party’s voters now have a positive view of socialism. They are almost evenly divided as to whether they like capitalism or socialism more.

Socialism, Communism, Maoism, and National Socialism (eg the Nazi Party) are all offshoots of Marxism. They are all branches of the same defective tree. Marxism has failed in literally every venue it has been tried, despite progressives’ laughable efforts to claim certain countries have implemented it successfully. No country has and no country ever will.

El Nino is still growing rapidly with a peak forecast around Christmas and latest data suggests it will match the two strongest El Ninos ever recorded in 1997/98 and 1982/83 threatening serious consequences for the UK. El Nino, which sees ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific rise due to a change in wind direction, has been linked to colder than average winters in northern Europe.

However the almost unprecedented strength of the event now threatens to throw a spanner in the works next summer. Scientists warn that rather than recovering to normal values after El Nino peaks this winter, ocean temperatures will make a dramatic swing in the other direction. The so-called La Nina phenomenon will trigger a reversal of oceanographic conditions leading to a major cool down of the eastern Pacific.

Like its brother El Nino, La Nina - which means The Girl - can have major impacts on climatic conditions around the world. In the tropics La Nina is linked to wetter than average conditions while in the United States the southeast and central plains are drier than normal with the northwest unusually cold.

In the UK, a particularly strong La Nina threatens to quash any hopes of a decent summer with cold and wet weather associated with the pattern. Scientists say the exceptional strength of the current El Nino will trigger a ‘pendulum effect’ with an equally strong La Nina possible.

National Grid used a new emergency scheme to pay large businesses to cut their electricity usage, resulting in dozens of large office buildings powering down their air conditioning and ventilation systems between 5pm and 6pm. The scheme, which is paid for through levies on consumer energy bills, was introduced last year but had never been called upon before. National Grid blamed the power crunch on “multiple plant break downs”.

Several ageing coal-fired power plants had unexpected maintenance issues and temporarily shut down, experts said, reducing available supplies. The problem was compounded by low wind speeds meaning most of Britain’s 6,500 onshore and offshore wind turbines were barely generating any power just as demand hit its highest.

UK wind farms have a theoretical maximum capacity of more than 13,000 megawatts, but produced less than 400 megawatts of power for much of the peak demand period – meeting less than one per cent of the UK’s electricity needs, published data suggests. Britain's 8,000 megawatts of solar panel capacity would also have produced no power during the peak, because it was dark at the time.

Militant students stormed the compound and took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The two countries have had no diplomatic relations since then. However, current President Hassan Rouhani has made efforts to improve relations, including a landmark nuclear agreement reached with world powers this past summer.

Khamenei says the "aim of the slogan is not death to American people. The slogan means death to US policies and arrogance." The slogan has "strong support" In Iran, he said. Khamenei and hard-liners in the Iranian government remain deeply suspicious of the United States and view its policies as a threat to the country.

Meanwhile, people are leaving our churches in droves and church attendance is way down. This is especially true of younger Americans. According to an incredible new report that was just released by the Pew Research Center, only 27 percent of all Millennials (US adults born since 1990) attend religious services on a weekly basis.

When you go into many churches in America on Sunday mornings, all you see are “the greys”, and I am not talking about space aliens. But instead of focusing on fixing what has gone wrong, many Christians (including a number of very prominent ministers) spend most of their energy savagely attacking their brothers and sisters in Christ. This is absolutely disgraceful and it needs to stop.

America is on the exact same path to secularization that Europe has already gone down. The Pew Research Center discovered that the percentage of Americans who are “absolutely certain” that God exists declined from 71 percent in 2007 to 63 percent in 2014. Meanwhile, the percentage of those that are “religiously unaffiliated” rose from 16 percent in 2007 to 23 percent today.

Atheism, agnosticism and other religions are on the rise in America, and Christianity is in decline. And as I noted above, this is particularly true among our young people.

“This invasion is driven, on the one hand, by people smugglers, and on the other by those (human rights) activists who support everything that weakens the nation-state,” Mr Orban said. “This Western mindset and this activist network is perhaps best represented by George Soros.”

Mr Soros has now issued an email statement to Bloomberg Business, claiming his foundations help “uphold European values”, while Mr Orban’s actions in strengthening the Hungarian border and stopping a huge migrant influx “undermine those values.” “His plan treats the protection of national borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle,” Mr Soros added. “Our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the obstacle.”

Mr Orban said in an interview last month that immigration and multiculturalism are endangering Europe’s “Christian roots” and creating “parallel societies”. Europeans, he said, should “stick to our Christian values” and “Europe can be saved,” but only if they “take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.”

From providing early funding to hard left news outlets such as Salon.com to bankrolling many of the leftist activist groups that descended on Ferguson in the wake of the Michael Brown shooting all the way to literally paying Black Lives Matter to continue to stir up racial anger, Soros seems to have his hands (and money) in everything.

While some commentators have noted the ties between the ongoing European refugee crisis and the Soros run Open Society Foundation, the mainstream media as a whole has largely downplayed this connection, instead opting to shame the people of Europe and the United States into supporting what amounts to the literal destruction of their society.

Now, as multiple European countries have begun to fight back against this wholesale assault on their countries’ very foundations, Soros and his groups have come under attack and their response to these attacks has revealed why exactly he is funding various groups helping to facilitate the introduction of hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Muslim “refugees”.

In the midst of most European countries being guilted by the media into accepting an untold number of refugees, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been a lone voice of sanity, refusing to allow the destruction of his country despite widespread pressure from the media and various international organizations and governing bodies.

In a report published by Bloomberg Business, Orban, who for months has been under attack by Soros funded activists over his stance on the refugee crisis, completely exposed the real intent of Soros and his allies. “His name is perhaps the strongest example of those who support anything that weakens nation states, they support everything that changes the traditional European lifestyle,” Orban said in an interview on public radio Kossuth, according to Bloomberg Business.

There are more displaced people and refugees now than at any other time in recorded history — 60 million in all — and they are on the march in numbers not seen since World War II. They are coming not just from Syria, but from an array of countries and regions, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, even Haiti, as well as any of a dozen or so nations in sub-Saharan and North Africa. They are unofficial ambassadors of failed states, unending wars, intractable conflicts.

The most striking thing about the current migration crisis, however, is how much bigger it could still get. What if Islamic State militants are not beaten back but continue to extend their brutal writ across Iraq and Syria? What if the Taliban continue to increase their territorial gains in Afghanistan, prompting even more people to flee? A quarter of Afghans told a Gallup Poll that they want to leave, and more than 100,000 are expected to try to flee to Europe this year.

Many of the migrants are fleeing persecution, poverty, ethnic and religious strife and war, but these afflictions are often symptoms of more profound changes. In the Middle East and Africa, borders drawn by Ottoman dynasts and European colonialists are breaking down as the autocratic Arab states that enforced a grim peace for generations continue to implode. As traditional lines of authority break down, militant groups like the Islamic State and Boko Haram, in Nigeria, seek to fill the vacuum while minority sects and ethnic groups suffer unspeakable treatment at their hands.

Those stresses pose a challenge for the future, experts say, because the flow is unlikely to ebb anytime soon. “I don’t think this wave can stop,” said Sonja Licht of the International Center for Democratic Transition. “It can maybe from time to time be somewhat less intensive, we simply have to prepare. The global north must be prepared that the global south is on the move, the entire global south. This is not just a problem for Europe but for the whole world.”

The warning was made by a spokesman for the National Salvation Government of Libya's General National Congress in an interview with The Telegraph in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. The Congress took control of Tripoli last year after fighting against forces loyal to the internationally recognised House of Representatives government, and is not recognised by the European Union as Libya's legitimate government. A fortnight ago, both factions also rejected the terms of a United Nations-brokered peace deal.

Jamal Zubia, the National Salvation Government's foreign media spokesman, told The Telegraph that Libya was currently spending tens of millions of pounds a year stopping migrants from crossing the Mediterranean, through the use of detention centres and repatriation programs. He said that if Europe continued to refuse to recognise the Congress's authority, the Libyan government could reverse the policy.

Overall, Americans speak more than 350 different tongues at home, including some 150 Native American languages, some of which have so few speakers that the bureau declined to release the totals for fear that it would identify actual individuals.

And in the country’s largest cities, English is actually a minority language: A staggering 54 percent of residents in the Los Angeles metropolitan region speak a language other than English at home, as do 51 percent of Miami-area residents, 40 percent of San Francisco, 38 percent of New York, 37 percent of Houston and 36 percent of the Washington DC, region.

Mr Obama’s spending agreement with Congress will suspend the nation’s debt limit and allow the Treasury to borrow another $1.5 trillion or so by the end of his presidency in 2017. Added to the current total national debt of more than $18.15 trillion, the red ink will likely be crowding the $20 trillion mark right around the time Mr Obama leaves the White House.

“Congress and the president have just agreed to undo one of the only successful fiscal restraint mechanisms in a generation,” said Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union. “The progress on reducing spending and the deficit has just become much more problematic.”

German leader Angela Merkel said Britain's demands could be met "where justified" or opt-outs offered. Opposition parties said the powers Mr Osborne was requesting already existed and called his trip to Germany a "meaningless publicity stunt". Setting out his priorities, the chancellor said: "This is about people's jobs and people's wallets."

Another crucial demand for the UK is the ability to opt-out of the EU's commitment to "ever-closer union" between member states, which dates back to the 1957 Treaty of Rome. Mr Osborne told German business leaders British people "do not want to be part of an ever-closer union". He stressed the British government's desire to stay in a reformed EU but added: "It needs to be a Europe where we are not part of that ever closer union you are more comfortable with. Ever closer union is not right for us any longer."

George Osborne, Britain’s chancellor, arrived in Berlin on Monday as the country’s ruling coalition was in disarray over the vast influx of refugees it has received this year. A crisis meeting of coalition leaders — called to discuss how to handle the arrival of up to a million refugees this year — broke up without agreement on Sunday over a contentious proposal to house migrants in “transit zones” at border crossings.

For Germany's leadership, Britain's demands add further tension to a European project that is already under strain. And while Berlin is keen to keep Britain in the EU, regarding the UK as a valuable proponent of competition and free trade, there is concern that even if Germany makes concessions, British voters may still choose to leave.

Daniela Schwarzer of the German Marshall Fund of the US, a Berlin-based think-tank, said Germany feared that renegotiating British membership could encourage other EU nations to seek concessions from Brussels. “Could it trigger a broader discussion of loosening integration?” she asked. “There are disintegrative tendencies within the EU — the eurozone crisis was one, and the migration crisis currently, where there is a strong tension with eastern European countries.”