You may think that, boisterous as these demonstrators are, and although they can draw a few thousand youngsters to their events, they are but a tiny fraction of the population and could never pose a serious threat to any government. But how wrong you would be.

Major political changes always are achieved by minorities. All revolutions are the work of less than three percent of the population, and the American Revolution was no exception. It’s not how many people there are, but how well organized they are and where they are. If the three percenters are influential in a nation’s power centers (political parties, government agencies, courts, military, schools, activist groups, labor unions, etc), then the odds are in their favor. The masses will follow the winners.

When you look at the rag-tag bunch carrying placards and shouting obscenities, you may be comforted thinking that they have no influence in the real power centers, but be mindful that street theater is only half the picture. Classic communist strategy involves, not one, but two types of revolution. The first is by force and violence (they call it a war of national liberation), but the other is political and peaceful (what they call a proletarian revolution).

The two are designed to work together, one from the bottom (masses in the streets) and the other from the top (agents inside government waiting for an excuse to introduce legislation that will move the nation closer to the Leninist ideal). The strategy is not to conquer in one fell swoop, but to do so by a series of steps, each one seen by the public as a necessary compromise to end the violence.

The Bureau of Meteorology is warning about “severe heatwave conditions” caused by a pool of heated air formed over central Australia that has blocked cooler changes from pushing through. Adelaide will today swelter through a hot, humid day forecast to reach 42 degrees, while Melbourne is tipped to hit 37 degrees.

The sizzling temperatures come after thunderstorms swept through Sydney and parts of NSW on Tuesday, causing flash flooding, property damage, several flood rescues and evacuations. The storms also caused structural damage to dozens of homes across Sydney, while a sinkhole opened up on Wednesday in the harbourside suburb of Point Piper, where Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull lives.

Meanwhile total fire bans and extreme or severe fire danger warnings are expected in parts of NSW on the weekend, the Rural Fire Service said. “If the forecast eventuates we’re likely to see catastrophic fire danger develop in some areas including the Hunter,” RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said in a statement.

The highly unusual statement comes amid growing calls for the European Union to invest in its own nuclear deterrent in the wake of President Donald Trump’s comments that Nato is “obsolete”. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of Poland’s ruling party, told a German newspaper this week he would “welcome an EU nuclear superpower”.

A senior MP from Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democrat party (CDU) has called for Germany to press for a European nuclear deterrent. Spiegel magazine has questioned whether it is time for Germany to acquire its own nuclear weapons. And the Financial Times has called for Germany to “think the unthinkable” on the issue.

“If the US is no longer prepared to do its part of the nuclear deterrence, Germany and France will have to fill this vacuum,” Gustav Gressel of the European Council on Foreign Relations said.

55 per cent answered in the affirmative, 25% said they don’t know and just 20% said they disagreed with the statement. Opposition to Muslim immigration is strongest in Poland, where 71% oppose it compared to just 9% who support it. In France, which has experienced a number of horrific terror attacks over the last two years, 61% oppose Muslim immigration while just 16% support it.

In Germany, which has seen instances of mass molestation of women carried out by Muslim migrants, most notably in Cologne, 53% support a halt on Muslim immigration, while 19% oppose that view. Despite the best efforts of politicians on the left to obfuscate the link between Muslim immigration and exploding crime and rape statistics, the people who are actually living amidst this new form of “cultural enrichment” have made it very clear that they don’t like it.

This poll proves that opposition to Muslim immigration in Europe is now the mainstream view. With new elections in France, the Netherlands and Germany set to take place later this year, it remains to be seen how that resentment will translate into actual political change.

He says he went to a remote area of the coastal peninsula to buy milk on a dairy farm, but was shocked to see a perfect specimen and vital element of purification of the Third Temple right in front of his eyes – a red heifer calmly chewing its cud under the Baja sun. The red heifer, one of the most mystifying Torah commandments, is a necessary element for purifying Jews to enable them to do the service in the Temple.

Numbers 19:9 states: “And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the congregation of B’nei Yisrael for a water of sprinkling; it is a purification from sin.”

Over the course of the approximately 1,000 years the First and Second Temple stood, only nine red heifers were used in preparing the waters used to purify Jews. According to Jewish tradition, the 10th one will be used by the Messiah.

A very few candidates for the red heifer have been found. Most have been disqualified due to blemishes or pregnancies. In an effort to reinstate the mitzvah (Torah commandment) of purifying with the red heifer’s ashes, the Temple Institute in Jerusalem last year imported embryos of red Angus, a distinctly red breed of cow, and implanted them in Israeli cows at a farm in the Negev.

That comment, which angered Arab countries, comes after UN board UNESCO voted last October to deny all Jewish connections to Jerusalem's Temple Mount and Western Wall. The revered Western Wall is all that remains of the Temple, which was destroyed by the Roman army in 70 AD after a Jewish rebellion.

"For him to make that comment recognizing the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount was huge," observes Laurie Cardoza-Moore, who is president of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations and special UN envoy for the World Council of Independent Churches.

"In fact," she adds, "it set off a firestorm of protest especially from the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas." Cardoza-Moore predicts the new environment at the UN, including new UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, will improve Israel's standing at the international body.  

Fast forward to 2017, and what does Rowan Blanchard, a fifteen year-young female Disney starlet believe? She’s a big proponent of “intersectional feminism” and abortion. On a recent Instagram post, the teen declared her unwavering support for abortion to over five million of her impressionable followers. One of her female heroes is Cecile Richardson, the CEO of Planned Parenthood.

Rowan Blanchard appears to be clueless that the origins of planned parenthood and the mind of its progenitor Margaret Sanger was to eliminate people of color and those Sanger and other eugenicists felt were unfit. It would be a good bet that Ms Blanchard hasn’t given much thought to the invasive and damaging techniques used to extract, cut, and tear out 60 million unborn American children from the womb of their mothers since 1973. Or that her hero Cecile Richardson is the head of an organization that sells fetal body parts for profit.

“That’s difficult enough already for two reasons: Because it is from the Americans that we obtained our liberal democracy in the first place; and because it is unclear how the brute and choleric man on the other side will react to diplomatic pressure,” he wrote. “The fact that opposition to the American government can only succeed when mounted together with Asian and African partners — and no doubt with our partners in Europe, with the [European Union] — doesn’t make the situation any easier.”

In one of the toughest sections of the editorial, Brinkbäumer described Trump as a "pathological liar" and racist. “It is literally painful to write this sentence, but the president of the United States is a pathological liar,” he wrote. "The president of the US is a racist (it also hurts to write this)." "He is attempting a coup from the top; he wants to establish an illiberal democracy, or worse; he wants to undermine the balance of power,” Brinkbäumer added.

Trump's election has unnerved some US allies, who watched some of Trump's rhetoric during the campaign with alarm. The speaker of the House of Commons in Great Britain on Monday separately said that Trump should not be invited to speak to that legislative body. 

The destructive energy of the Trump movement could prove to be a great test for America, a country where liberal powers are so well organized that they won't give up without a fight. Eric Schneiderman, attorney general of the state of New York, is one of many to have sounded the warning bells, saying that Trump "does not have respect for the rule of the law." The country, Schneiderman said, is facing "a crisis over whether the Constitution is respected or not."

The first victim has been the government apparatus in Washington, DC. Already, Trump's quartet in the White House has essentially obliterated all traces of predecessor Barack Obama. The president rapidly fired the acting attorney general because she considered Trump's travel ban to be illegal, while other high-ranking officials have either been let go or have left of their own accord.

Entire hallways in US departments are now empty, with replacements yet to be found. Trump campaigned on a pledge to declare war on the capital and to "drain the swamp." And he has kept his word to a fault. Nowhere has that been more visible than in the State Department at the end of Trump's first week in office. There has always been an unwritten rule in Washington that the new leadership works together with established State Department staff for at least enough time for knowledge to be transferred. But Trump ignored the tradition. In the first week of his presidency, almost the entire leadership of the State Department was forced to resign, including Under Secretary of State Patrick Kennedy and three additional senior officials. They had all worked under both Republican and Democratic administrations in the past.

"Nobody knows what will happen next," says one top official. "It's not about individual fates. My concern is where the country is heading." Indeed, the speed with which Trump has introduced his agenda has been dizzying. Two weeks ago, a black president, Barack Obama, was still sitting in the White House. He found it vital to avoid making all 1.6 billion Muslims in the world responsible for terrorism. He didn't want America to isolate itself. He helped push through the Paris climate agreement, he respected the European Union and he told Angela Merkel in farewell that she would likely have to take over the role of leading the free world.

Was that really just two weeks ago?

As so often in Schulz’s unlikely political career, he is having the last laugh. News Monday that the SPD had overtaken Merkel’s Christian Democrats for the first time in more than a decade in a regular horse-race poll published by the daily Bild sent shockwaves through Berlin. A flurry of recent polls had shown the SPD gaining steam, but few believed the SPD would actually pull ahead.  The big question is whether the Schulz effect is sustainable.

What worries Merkel’s camp is that Schulz’s strengths, his rhetorical skills and newcomer appeal, are qualities Merkel can’t match.  That’s already apparent on social media. A Reddit forum called the_schulz (a play on Trump’s “The Donald” moniker) has become a sensation, spawning a flurry of pro-Schulz memes and the acronym “MEGA,” for Making Europe Great Again.  Though half in jest, the often exaggerated testimonials, including regular references to Schulz as “Chancellor God,” are creating buzz around Schulz’s campaign, adding to its momentum.

Even Merkel’s allies are warning of Merkel fatigue. “Is Germany tired of Merkel?” the right-leaning Bild asked Tuesday.

This might explain their behavior in the wake of Donald Trump’s trouncing of Hillary Clinton. Generosity demands that we forgive these precious snowflakes and hope that they grow up. The real problem is with people assumed to be grown-ups — college professors and administrators who tolerate and give aid and comfort to our aberrant youth. Let’s look at tiny samples of it. To help avoid microaggressions, the University of North Carolina administration posted a notice urging staff and faculty members to avoid phrases such as “husband/boyfriend,” which they claim is heteronormative (!!!), and “Christmas vacation” (!!! oh the outrage), which “minimizes non-Christian spiritual rituals.”

This winter, the Oregon State University administration will treat its students to a new class that promises to teach them about how blacks have historically resisted white supremacists. Professor Dwaine Plaza, one of three instructors for the course, said the idea was inspired by Trump’s election, which he fears will take the country back to the 1960s (!!! I remember the 60s.  I kind of liked them, especially the music). The University of Maryland is hosting a series of postelection lectures on how a “commitment to white supremacy (!!!)” gave Trump momentum and blaming “white America’s spiritual depravity (!!!)” for his rise to power. One of the topics will be “Make America White Again? The Racial Reasoning of American Nationalism.” 

Snowflake indulgence has been fostered by the education establishment and, more recently, by federal law. One of the most popular features of Obamacare is its provision that children can remain on their parents’ health care plan until they are 26 years old. That promotes prolonged adolescence, sparing the necessity for youngsters to get out on their own.

Some have criticized my lack of sympathy for snowflakes in the wake of their emotional trauma resulting from Trump’s defeat of Clinton. Here’s my question to you: How much sympathy would you have for those 18- to 24-year-olds who are in the military if they conducted themselves — on aircraft carriers, in nuclear submarines and in special forces — just as college snowflakes did in the wake of the Trump victory?

You want to know where all this victim-oriented “I’m triggered” and “I need a safe space” comes from? You just found it. It’s a short step from being diagnosed with a mental disorder to adopting the role of being super-sensitive to “triggers.” You could call it a self-fulfilling prophecy. “If I have a mental disorder, then I’m a victim, and then what people say and do around me is going disturb me… and I’ll prove it.”

The dangerous and destabilizing effects of psychiatric drugs confirm this attitude. The drugs DO, in fact, produce an exaggerated and distorted sensitivity to a person’s environment. You want to know where a certain amount of violent aggressive behavior on campuses comes from? You just found it. The psychiatric drugs. In particular, antidepressants and speed-type medications for ADHD.

You want to know why so many college students can’t focus on their studies? You just found one reason. The brain effects of the drugs. The usual variety of student problems are translated into pseudoscientific categories of “mental disorders” — and toxic drugging ensues.

And that Fukushima’s reactors had actually suffered something much worse than a total meltdown: nuclear melt-throughs, where the nuclear fuel melted through the containment vessels and into the ground.   A few months later, we reported that radiation will pollute the area around Chernobyl for 5 to 10 times longer than models predicted – between 180 and 320 years.

The following year, we pointed out that the operator of the Fukushima plant admitted that they couldn’t find the  melted fuel from Fukushima reactor number 2 … and that the technology doesn’t yet even exist to clean up Fukushima.

The highest radiation levels ever measured at Chernobyl were 300 sieverts per hour … an incomprehensibly high dose which can kill a man almost instantly. But a radiation level of 530 sieverts per hour has just been measured at Fukushima’s number 2 reactor. This new record at Fukushima is 70% higher than that of Chernobyl.