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". They called the vote a Dexit as it stands for a Deutschland exit from the EU. Eurosceptism has swept across the continent after the people of Britain backed Brexit in the historic EU referendum on June 23.

AfD chairman Bjorn Hocke said: "I know the German people want to be free of EU slavery." George Pazderski of Berlin AfD added: "Germans must decide on staying in the EU. The AfD is the only party which speaks out clearly in favour of them deciding."

Party leader Frauke Petry, who caused controversy earlier this year when she called on German police to open fire on illegal immigrants, reacted with delight at Britain's decision to sever ties with Brussels. She said: "This is the chance for a new Europe, one which maintains partnerships and respected national sovereignties."

"The Great Britain decision to leave the EU is a signal to the Brussels Politburo and its bureaucratic attachments. If the EU does not finally leave its wrong path, and the quasi-socialist experiment of deeper political integration, more European Nations will reclaim their sovereignty the way the British are."

President Obama met this week with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to form a new ‘Partnership Action Plan’ modeled after Obama’s radical Clean Energy Plan.

According to the Leaders' Statement:

“Our actions to align climate and energy policies will protect human health and help level the playing field for our businesses, households, and workers. In recognition of our close ties and shared vision, we commit today to an ambitious and enduring North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership that sets us firmly on the path to a more sustainable future.”

It is clear that the basic objectives from 2005 remain the same: integrate and harmonize the three nations for the sake of businesses, households and workers.

Slyapich has been working with snakes for more than 50 years and says homeowners are giving the rattlers exactly what they are looking for. “If you build it, they will come,” he said. “Just because you build them a cave, leave the door open, garage door open, put a cement pond in the backyard, make it green all around, maybe throw some mice and rats around. They love us humans.”

He suggests building a box around your property, installing one-quarter-inch fencing around the entire perimeter, and reducing landscaping. He also recommends checking seals, and bringing bushes up off the ground. In essence, eliminating all of the hiding places. “By taking away shrubbery as much as you can, you take away the rodent, the food source, which eliminates the snakes,” he said.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife estimates there are about 800 rattlesnake bites every year, with one or two being fatal. These bites can also sting your wallet, potentially costing hundreds of thousands of dollars for anti-venom and treatment.

Two gay men filed class-actions claims against Spark Networks Inc in California courts in 2013 alleging that ChristianMingle.com and several other sites in the company’s portfolio of niche dating services excluded users looking to meet singles of the same sex. ChristianMingle, billed as the largest online community for Christian singles, required new users to specify whether they’re a man seeking a woman or a woman seeking a man.

The lead plaintiffs, two gay men who tried using it, claimed that the limited options violated California’s anti-discrimination law. Known as the Unruh Civil Rights Act, the state law requires “business establishments” to offer “full and equal accommodations” to people regardless of their sexual orientation.

In stark contrast, Britain's premier index the FTSE 100 has left its continental counterparts in the dust. The London index held steady in today's trading, following two days of strong gains that have taken the index to its highest level since April. Meanwhile, Germany's DAX and France's CAC remain down around six per cent from Thursday's close before the referendum.

But the biggest concern is Italy where markets are still down 11 per cent amid fears over the stability of the country's banks and knock-on effects on the economy. The Italian banks index is down by a whopping 26 per cent - or only just above record lows seen in 2012. Italian authorities are struggling to restore confidence amid around £270 billion of bad loans sitting in their banks' books.

The government suffered another setback yesterday after German Chancellor Angela Merkel ruled out allowing Italian policymakers to pump tens of millions of euros into the banking system to help stabilise it. Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets UK, said: "Under current EU state aid rules any attempts to help banks must involve a bail-in process that doesn’t involve using taxpayers’ money."

"Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has tried to argue that the Brexit uncertainty has destabilised Italy’s already fragile banks. The reality is the problems of Italy’s banks predate last week’s Brexit vote, and he knows it."

On Monday, King checked in with him to see what has changed in the past six years. “We have certainly not become less greedy or less stupid,” Hawking replied. Hawking gave a quick recap of what the world looks like in 2016, saying: “Six years ago, I was warning about pollution and overcrowding, they have gotten worse since then.”

“The population has grown by half a billion since our last interview, with no end in sight. At this rate, it will be eleven billion by 2100. Air pollution has increased by 8 percent over the past five years. More than 80 percent of inhabitants of urban areas are exposed to unsafe levels of air pollution,” he said. Despite the grim outlook for our civilization, Hawking said pollution, what he felt was the biggest problem facing humanity, had still not been addressed.

But that isn’t the only thing Hawking is concerned about. When asked about the dangers of artificial intelligence, Hawking explained that increases in technology may be coming at a steep cost, saying: “Governments seem to be engaged in an AI arms race, designing planes and weapons with intelligent technologies. The funding for projects directly beneficial to the human race, such as improved medical screening seems a somewhat lower priority.”

Believing that this was a possible "data glitch", some investigation work was done. Surprisingly, there is no "data glitch". The website has been intentionally changed to paint blanks for 24 hours a day. If geologists believe there is an equipment malfunction, then a simple message could be displayed on each of the website pages. But why paint blanks?

As of this writing, all of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes spectrograph data is not viewable by the public. This includes Mount Baker, Mount Rainier, Mount Saint Helens, Mount Hood, Three Sisters, Newberry, and Crater Lake. What is happening at these volcanoes? Why are all of the spectrographs in the Tectonic and ETS groupings also painting blanks? Why has there been an intentional blanking without a description or comment of this condition from the geologists?

His French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault urged quick negotiations on Britain’s exit from the union, saying that the pressure would be “very strong” on British Prime Minister David Cameron at an EU summit on Tuesday to speed up the process.

Cameron, who on Friday announced his resignation by October in the wake of the referendum, said it should be his successor who leads the complex negotiations under Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty which sets out a two-year timeframe to leave. Steinmeier called the European Union “a successful project of peace and stability” and said that there was a “strong desire” within the bloc to defend and strengthen it.

“I think it is absolutely clear that we are in a situation in which neither hysteria nor paralysis are permissible,” he said. “We must not rush headlong into hectic action, pretending we had all the answers. But we must also not fall into depression or inaction after the British decision.”

The speech, delivered on a factory floor in western Pennsylvania on Tuesday, outlined Trump's promise to restore millions of lost factory jobs by backing away from decades of US trade policy. The approach, which represents a significant break from years of Republican Party advocacy for unencumbered trade between nations, drew immediate condemnation from Democrats as well as GOP business leaders, who questioned the impact on the price of consumer goods, as well as the country's place in the global economy

In his 35-minute speech, Trump directly targeted Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton, blaming her and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs. And he threatened to exit the more than 2-decade-old North American Free Trade Agreement and vowed to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an agreement among 12 Pacific Rim nations that has yet to take effect.

"This wave of globalization has wiped out totally, totally our middle class," Trump said, standing in front of pallets of recycled aluminum cans on a factory floor. "It doesn't have to be this way. We can turn it around, and we can turn it around fast."

Mr Farage also predicted how Britain “will not be the last member state to leave the EU” as he accused top Brussels chiefs of being “in denial” about the state of the crisis-riddled bloc. Recalling how he began his efforts to lead Britain out the EU by taking a seat in the European Parliament, Mr Farage said: “Isn’t it funny, when I came here 17-years-ago and said I wanted to lead a campaign to get Britain to leave the EU you all laughed at me.

“Well, you’re not laughing now.

“You as a political project are in denial. You are in denial that your currency is failing, you are in denial that Mrs Merkel’s call last year for as many people as possible to cross the Mediterranean has led to massive decisions within countries. But the main reason the UK voted out was that you have by stealth and by deception without ever telling the truth to the people of Europe continued to impose on them a political union. I will make one prediction this morning: the United Kingdom will not be the last member state to leave the European Union."

Mr Farage called for a “grown up and sensible” future relationship between Britain and the EU as he warned European politicians from acting in anger by trying to punish the UK for quitting. In a dig at the packed chamber of European politicians, he said: “I know that virtually none of you have done a proper job in your lives.” But he said there must be a “pragmatic” approach to agreeing a trade deal.

He said: “If you were to cut off your noses to spite your face the consequences would be far worse for you than it would be for us”. Mr Farage warned “German car workers risk losing their jobs” if the EU fails to negotiate a deal with Britain. He said: “Let’s create between us a sensible tariff free deal. The UK will be your friend… we will be your best friends in the world”. But he urged the EU to “let us go off and fulfil our global ambitions and future” now that Britain has left the bloc.

The EU’s chief diplomat, Federica Mogherini, will reportedly present a new foreign and security policy strategy later this week at the European Union summit in Brussels, according to Spiegel magazine. The document is the EU’s first major foreign and security policy strategy since its 2003 European Security Strategy. It comes as the bloc is facing uncertainty and decline after the British referendum on European Union membership.

“The purpose, even existence, of our union is being questioned,” Mogherini wrote in the foreword to the paper. “The crises within and beyond our borders are affecting directly our citizens’ lives,” it goes on, which is “even more true after the British referendum.”

The new strategy focuses on building up European “hard power” to achieve “strategic autonomy.” It’s designed “to cope with super-powers” and deal with “global policemen and lone warriors,” Mogherini’s foreword said, not mentioning specific countries. “In this fragile world, soft power is not enough: We must enhance our credibility in security and defense,” according to the draft strategy, which was also seen by the Wall Street Journal.

To deal with emerging challenges, the EU should stop relying on the US, and “take more responsibility for our own security.” The document goes even further by saying that despite NATO being there to protect its members from external attacks, “the Europeans must in future be better equipped, trained and organized to act alone, when necessary.”