Sadly, our military has a very long history of wasting money like this. Back in the 1980s, the “six hundred dollar toilet seat” became quite famous. Average Americans were absolutely outraged that the government was wasting so much of our hard-earned money, and promises were made that things would change. Here is more on what transpired back then from Wikipedia…

Beginning in 1981, President Ronald Reagan began an expansion in the size and capabilities of the United States armed forces, which entailed major new expenditures on weapons procurement. By the mid-1980s, this spending became a scandal when the Project On Government Oversight reported that the Pentagon had vastly overpaid for a wide variety of items, most notoriously paying $435 for a hammer, $600 for a toilet seat, and $7,000 for a coffee pot.

What our politicians are attempting to do now is to keep borrowing money and extending the game for as long as they possibly can. If that sounds like a really bad plan to you, that is because it is a really bad plan. What our leaders have done to future generations of Americans is beyond criminal. But the American people have come to accept this as “normal”, and only a very small percentage of us are still complaining about it. So the jokers in Washington will just keep on doing what they are doing until it all comes tumbling down all around them. By then, it will be far too late to do anything about it.

Shot 'Borat’-style, and starring Oliver Masucci, it follows the Fuhrer as he wakes up in present-day Berlin, with no memory of the events after 1945. No one believes that he is the real Hitler, but his rants on YouTube soon develop a following, and he becomes a 'media sensation’, landing his own TV show.

Speaking to The Guardian, director David Wnendt said: “Germans should be able to laugh at Hitler, rather than viewing him as a monster, because that relieves him of responsibility for his deeds and diverts attention from his guilt for the Holocaust. But it should be the type of laugh that catches in your throat and you’re almost ashamed when you realise what you’re doing.”

But he added that the movie is also highlighting the more worrying trend of a resurgence of fascism in Europe. “We’re highlighting that the danger of a resurgence is very much alive,” he said. The book was a roaring success, and had sold 14 million copies around the world.

Does any other topic actually exist in the EU besides refugees? For years the Union held its breath over the national debt crises, the fate of Europe apparently in the balance. The topic is still very much on the agenda, as shown by recent reports that the creditors are delaying the payment of further funds to Greece because the country is dragging its feet over the implemention of reforms. Consideration of Greece, however, also highlights something else: Within just a few weeks, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's standing in Europe has dramatically decreased.

During the debt crisis, Merkel earned herself considerable authority. She stood for abiding by the rules, for solidarity – and also for working to ensure European cohesion. Where necessary, she was ready to compromise in order to achieve this. Her politics of stability weren't to everyone's liking. But even many of her critics accepted that the medicine dispensed by "Mother Merkel" was good.

Until late this summer, that is, when Merkel reacted to the incoming flow of refugees with two disastrous sentences: "There is no upper limit" and "We can cope." She still stands by these assertions. They were accompanied by selfies with refugees, and a unilateral decision to stop abiding by the Dublin regulation. In Merkel's eyes, building fences to keep refugees out is not only futile but reprehensible. She accepted the state's loss of control over its borders with a mere shrug of the shoulders. And as if all that weren't enough, she stood up in front of all the other Europeans and declared her personal view of things to be the only one that was morally right.

However much the Chancellor believes she's morally in the right, on European refugee policy she is isolated. She was able, for the most part, to push through her views on economic policy because it was a policy the majority of Europeans believed in, even though it was painful. But not only are the majority in Germany opposed to her ideas about accepting an unlimited number of refugees, a considerable majority also oppose her in Europe, and have done for some time. Ultimately, there is no policy that will help with this. Merkel's personal tragedy is that she is in the process of gambling away the significant authority she had built up for herself in Europe.

“All countries that say ‘anyone who gets here can stay here’ are now in peril, given the scale of the population movements that are starting to be seen,” Mr Abbott, a conservative, said on Tuesday during a lecture honoring the British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

Mr Abbott backed an aggressive policy on migration during his two years in office. The Australian authorities turned away boats and refused to accept asylum seekers intercepted at sea, instead sending them to offshore camps. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who replaced Mr Abbott in September in a party coup, has announced no change to those policies.

In his London speech, Mr Abbott argued that the people arriving in Europe should be considered economic migrants, not refugees, even if they were fleeing war in Syria or elsewhere, because they were no longer in immediate danger.

“In Europe, as with Australia, people claiming asylum invariably have crossed not one border but many, and are no longer fleeing in fear but are contracting in hope with people smugglers,” he said. “However desperate, almost by definition they are economic migrants because they had already escaped persecution when they decided to move again.”

Mr Cameron has made an effective opt-out from ever-closer union a central aim of his renegotiation, saying: “It is not right for Britain, and we must ensure we are no longer subject to it.” Frans Timmermans, the First Vice President of the European Commission and Jean-Claude Juncker’s right hand man, insisted the European Commission has no “strong views” on the declaration.

He suggested it had been misunderstood by Britain as representing ever-increasing levels of political integration, whereas other states regard it as representing peace and co-operation between people. For some in Brussels, the phrase has an importance akin to ‘We, the People,’ the opening words of the US Constitution. It forms the first line of the 1957 Treaty of Rome, which laid the basis for the EU: “DETERMINED to lay the foundations of an ever-closer union among the peoples of Europe.”

As such, the chances of leaders agreeing to rewrite the treaty text, or creating a full-blown opt-out for certain countries, are remote. However, it does look like Britain will get some form of statement that says the principle does not oblige countries to take part in political integration if they do not wish.

Anibal Cavaco Silva, Portugal’s constitutional president, has refused to appoint a Left-wing coalition government even though it secured an absolute majority in the Portuguese parliament and won a mandate to smash the austerity regime bequeathed by the EU-IMF Troika.

He deemed it too risky to let the Left Bloc or the Communists come close to power, insisting that conservatives should soldier on as a minority in order to satisfy Brussels and appease foreign financial markets. Democracy must take second place to the higher imperative of euro rules and membership. Mr Cavaco Silva argued that the great majority of the Portuguese people did not vote for parties that want a return to the escudo or that advocate a traumatic showdown with Brussels.

This is true, but he skipped over the other core message from the elections held three weeks ago: that they also voted for an end to wage cuts and Troika austerity. The combined parties of the Left won 50.7 percent of the vote. Led by the Socialists, they control the Assembleia.

Greece’s Syriza movement, Europe’s first radical-Left government in Europe since the Second World War, was crushed into submission for daring to confront eurozone ideology. Now the Portuguese Left is running into a variant of the same meat-grinder. Europe’s socialists face a dilemma. They are at last waking up to the unpleasant truth that monetary union is an authoritarian Right-wing enterprise that has slipped its democratic leash, yet if they act on this insight in any way they risk being prevented from taking power. Brussels really has created a monster.

Unemployment in the currency bloc rose slightly in August to 11 percent. New data from statistics body Eurostat now lays bare the extent of Europe's battle against persistent joblessness. Of the eurozone's near 18 million unemployed in the first quarter of the year, only 18.6 percent - or 4.1 million - managed to find work over the subsequent three months. Nearly two thirds - just under 65 percent - remained luckless in their attempts to rejoin the labour force.

The numbers are just another glimpse of the chronic problem of long-term joblessness that plague the eurozone. Defined as being out of work for more than a year, long-term unemployment is a dangerous development that keeps economists awake at night. It is rising despite the euro's recent revival in fortunes. In Europe, around 15 percent of unemployed people have not had a job for more than four years. Europe's new hysteresis disease [when prolonged unemployment can become permanent] is setting in. The longer it stays, the harder it will be to save another lost generation.

“Austria’s behaviour in recent days has been out of order,” he said. Austria had not given Germany any warning about the numbers on their way, he added. The dispute comes as Germany’s Bild newspaper claimed it had evidence Austrian police were refusing refugees asylum and forcing them to go on to Germany.

The newspaper published an interview with a Syrian asylum-seeker named only as Mohammed F, who said he wanted asylum in Austria, but that police there had refused to accept his application and sent him to the German border instead.

Police officers lied to him that he was on the way to Vienna, he claimed. Johanna Mikl-Leitner, the Austrian interior minister, accused Germany at the weekend of not allowing enough asylum-seekers to cross the border, despite encouraging them to come to Europe. “Germany is simply accepting too few refugees at the moment,” she said.

"I see no chance that the Bundestag would ratify a trade agreement between the EU and the USA without involvement in how it came together or any say regarding alternatives," Lammert said in an interview with the Germany's FUNKE Media Group. Lammert said he agreed with calls from European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that all relevant documents pertaining to the negotiations should be made available to governments and parliaments of EU nations. "I insist on that," said Lammert.

Under the current plans, the full text of TTIP will only be released once it is finished, leaving no chance for amendments by the EU or the US. TTIP is facing growing resistance in Europe, where opponents argue the trade pact will tear down the EU's health, labor and environmental standards while empowering corporations. Protests against TTIP drawing up to 250,000 people from across Germany were held this month in Berlin.

Syquia revealed that the Catholic Church is struggling to keep up with all the exorcism requests, and many dioceses do not have in-house exorcists. He added that this is forcing some Christians to seek out "healers and occult practitioners," which according to the chief exorcist only attracts more demons. The priest suggested that one reason for the growth in exorcism requests is because more people are finding out about the exorcism office, due to the popular national radio program "Light in the Darkness."

Roman Catholic Church leader Pope Francis has warned in past speeches that Satanism is on the rise in the world, and has praised exorcists for combating "the devil's works”. The pope added that priests can demonstrate that "the Church welcomes those suffering from the devil's works."

In a scathing letter to Pope Francis, he accused the Vatican of hypocrisy because he said the clergy was 'full of homosexuals'. He also condemned the Church for causing 'immeasurable suffering' to homosexual Catholics and their families. In the letter, released to the BBC, he said he had taken the decision to 'publicly reject the violence of the Church towards homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and intersexual people'.

He called on 'all gay cardinals, gay bishops and gay priests to have the courage to abandon this insensitive, unfair and brutal Church.' Pope Francis has not yet responded to the letter. But the Vatican's anger contrasted with the news of Francis's still close relationship with an old Argentinian friend and his gay partner, who were hugged by the pontiff in the United States last month.

Charamsa says he has stayed faithful to his vow of celibacy because he has 'never touched a woman'.

China responded by warning and following the vessel before China’s foreign ministry characterized the maneuvers as a “threat to China’s sovereignty”. Chinese state media outlet the Global Times said that Beijing should now “prepare for the worst” and that Beijing “is not frightened to fight a war with the US in the region.”

Speculation on how China should respond to future violations included sending warships out to confront US destroyers. “Beijing ought to carry out anti-harassment operations. We should first track the US warships. If they, instead of passing by, stop for further actions, it is necessary for us to launch electronic interventions, and even send out warships, lock them by fire-control radar and fly over the US vessels,” states the editorial.

Earlier this year, billionaire investor George Soros also cautioned that the ruling Communist Party may see fit to rally its population around an external threat in order to head off a societal collapse in the aftermath of an economic implosion. “There is a real danger that China will align itself with Russia politically and militarily, and then the threat of third world war becomes real,” said Soros.