Manto added, “Instead of implying that US communities can always count on being rescued from any disaster in four days – requiring three days of food and water to stay comfortable – the implication now is that local communities might not always receive assistance for a much longer period of time.” Manto explained that the new strategy acknowledges that “unlike the cases of Hurricanes Katrina or Sandy, where help could come within a week or so, help might not arrive in 40 days, or even 400 days.”

“Long-term national outages of power and other infrastructures that depend on them – including water, sewer, communications, and healthcare institutions – could mean that the entire country might undergo a catastrophe and might not be able to quickly mobilize resources to help many communities,” Manto wrote.

A long-term disaster is not simply theoretical, Manto asserted. Each decade brings anywhere from a 6-12 percent chance of an 1859 Carrington event, according to scientists. During that year, the sun experienced a solar storm of such magnitude that it would have shut down the power grid if it had existed. “That is a significant likelihood for such a calamitous occurrence,” Manto wrote.

It has defined the relationship between citizen and government, subject and crown, limiting the excesses of arbitrary power, empowering individuals and instilling the rule of law so that, as Professor AV Dicey put it, "every man, whatever be his rank or condition, is subject to the ordinary law of the realm and amenable to the jurisdiction of the ordinary tribunals". It is rightly a potent symbol of freedom.

In the same way as those medieval Barons summoned up the courage to take back control from an irrepressible monarch, so must 21st century Britons find the same resolve to challenge the loss of sovereignty to Brussels.

We see why in the European legal system. The European Court of Justice (the "ECJ"), based in Luxembourg, has jurisdiction over all members states and must "ensure that in the interpretation and application of the Treaty the law is observed”, according to The Treaty of Rome, agreed in 1957.

However, the role of the ECJ has amplified so that it bears no resemblance to the intentions set out in 1957. Far from simply interpreting the law, it has gone further to rule on what it thinks the law should actually say. In doing so, it has profoundly changed the content of Treaties, determined social, economic and immigration policy, constitutional questions and encroached into the realm of human rights. A far cry from "interpretation". Just as within a federal system, the ECJ has, case by case, become a Supreme Court, usurping English courts and judges.

Britain’s precious sovereignty is ebbing away. Legislation is foisted upon us with immediate effect and no right of challenge. What was designed to be "Supreme" in our domestic courts system has become submissive, yielding to the might of our European masters.

Foremost among these are the US presidential election in November and the rapidly approaching Brexit referendum — coming up on June 23. And what is the Bilderberg consensus on these two issues? Simple: Trump must be stopped (and Hillary elected); the Brexit must be stopped (and the UK kept forever trapped in the evolving EU “Project”). More Bilderberg consensus: Flooding the EU with “refugee” migration must continue; populist political revolts against the elites in Austria, Hungary, the UK, Italy, France, and elsewhere must be neutralized; the TPP and TTIP globalist trade schemes must be formally approved; more bailouts (and “bail-ins”) of Too-Big-to-Fail banks and corporations must be readied — and much, much more.

With the Bilderberg confab hermetically sealed, how can I claim knowledge of the secret “consensus”? At a previous BG conference in Germany, Rockefeller spilled the beans in a tender bouquet to his co-conspirators in the media. “We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years,” he told the 1991 attendees. “It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during these years. But the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government which will never again know war but only peace and prosperity for the whole of humanity.”

In 2000, veteran Bilderberg member Denis Healy, the former British Labour Party leader and former chancellor of the exchequer, provided another public confirmation of Rockefeller’s private quip. “To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair,” Healy told The Guardian. “Those of us in Bilderberg felt … that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.”

In 2002, Rockefeller expounded further in his autobiographical Memoirs. Describing himself as a “proud internationalist” who is working for “one world,” he labeled as “ideological extremists” those critics who “believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure — one world, if you will.” But Rockefeller went on to say: “If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

With hardcore one-worlders such as Henry Kissinger, IMF Director Christine Lagarde, former EU Commission President José Manuel Barroso, Carnegie Endowment President William J Burns, and Google/Alphabet chief Eric Schmidt as a representative sampling, it’s not out of place to surmise that the Bilderberg confrères discussed the means at their disposal to thwart a British vote to exit their prized EU “Project.” And they do have considerable, frightful means at their disposal.

As for the GOP's likely candidate, Donald J Trump, he's brash, he is often unrefined, he says what is on his mind at any given moment, and he lacks government experience. His likely Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, comes with her own baggage as well, and in fact, to many, her vast government experience is seen as a hindrance, not a benefit.

Millions of voters view her as a card-carrying member of the ruling "establishment" – corrupt, compromised and untrustworthy, as the first (likely) presidential candidate who is actively under criminal investigation by the federal government.

But Clinton has another negative against her as well: the fact that she's a promoter of GMOs, and that one of the corporations that has her in their back pocket is Monsanto. As reported by Global Research, a Canada-based think tank, Clinton's views on GMOs are quite at odds with those of the current first lady, Michelle Obama, who reportedly insists that all White House meals be organic.

The 18-year-old runner, who was born in Thailand as a male but identifies as a female, qualified and competed in the Class 3A girls' sprints, capturing third place in the 200-meter preliminaries and fifth place in the 100-meter.

Earlier this year, the Alaska School Activities Association (ASAA) adopted a policy allowing schools and school districts to make up their own rules regarding transgender athletes. According to the Chilkat Valley News, the Haines Borough School District policy allows transgenders to compete in district programs and activities as the gender they identify with.

"For the purposes of gender identification for interscholastic activities, the district will consider the gender identity based on the student's consistent declaration of gender identity, their actions, attitude, dress and mannerisms. Everybody doesn't understand, and that's OK," said principal Martin. "But you still have to show respect, and we work together and we talk about things and we try to make it respectful for everybody."

This time, however, reporters didn’t need to break through a barricaded but unguarded residence — the FBI simply left the door unlocked after its initial investigation. Actually, make that two doors — the apartment’s front and back doors were not only left unlocked, they weren’t barricaded, even with the ubiquitous yellow crime scene tape.

And just like San Bernardino — when a slew of reporters rummaged through the shooter’s belongings — media crews made a mockery of the FBI in live time, snapping pictures, pushing items around, tweeting in real time pictures from Mateen’s bathroom. Pure sensationalist gawkery on display.

As an independent media narrator of a well-assembled video of this farce wryly queried, “I’m starting to think this is actually part of a social experiment to prove how many people are not paying attention — or just watching Dancing With the Stars and football, and just don’t care.”

And on the eve of that vote, Mr Walesa delivered a scathing criticism of the 28-country bloc saying Europe is in crisis because there are no shared values. He said: “Europe, this European construction, has no foundation. We rejected Christianity, we rejected ideologies like communism and now, there’s nothing left. What can we expect from societies when each of them has different foundations?”

Veteran Polish statesman Mr Walesa said he believes the EU must be reformed or a new organisation created. He said: “I’m rather more in favour of repairing what we already have. What's the use of starting all over again? But we need to do it, repair the EU, in a more efficient and transparent way. We have to explain things better to people; they need to understand what we're doing and why it exists. What we've got now is mistrust, suspicions, bureaucracy, dissatisfaction and trickery, because we don't have any solid foundations.”

Mr Walesa, warned Germany, France and Italy "should have a contingency scenario prepared to put in place 15 minutes after the EU falls apart”. The Nobel Peace Prize winner said he believes Germany should lead a reformed EU if Britain votes to leave or consider creating a new organisation. The 72-year-old said: “Germany in particular must calculate what would be better for development of the EU: do we create a completely new organisation or do we fix the old EU?”

“It’s up to the Germans to decide because they are the leaders and they must also decide with whom they want to build. After the current EU falls apart, a new union must be created, but it must be thought out much better in order to avoid the kind of problems we have now. Whoever wants to join it, can join, while those who don’t, can just say ‘no thanks’.”

His comments come as leading politicians from member states have said Brexit could be a great opportunity.

Of course it is true that we are still in the early chapters of this new crisis and that there is much, much more damage to be done, but let us not minimize the carnage that we have already witnessed. In general, there have been three major waves of financial panic over the past 12 months. Late last August we saw the biggest financial shaking since the financial crisis of 2008, then in January and February there was an even bigger shaking, and now a third “wave” has begun in June. Not all areas around the globe have been affected equally by each wave, but without a doubt this new financial crisis is a global phenomenon.

Let’s talk about China first. The Chinese economy is the second largest on the entire planet, and since this time last year Chinese stocks are down an astounding 40 percent… Unfortunately for China, their economy just continues to slow down, and George Soros is so alarmed by this and a potential “Brexit” that he has been selling off stocks and buying enormous amounts of gold in anticipation of an even bigger global downturn.

Japan has the third largest economy in the world, and over the past year Japanese stocks are down a total of 26 percent from the peak… Personally, I have been extremely alarmed by what has been happening in Japan lately. Japanese stocks were down almost 500 points last night, and overall the Nikkei is down a whopping 1,800 points so far in June.

Germany has the fourth largest economy in the world, and over the past year their stocks have fallen 19 percent from the peak of the market… The key thing to watch for in Germany are serious troubles at their biggest bank.

The fifth largest economy on the planet belongs to the United Kingdom, and since last June their stocks have fallen about 13 percent… One week from today, the “Brexit” vote will be held in the UK, and if they vote to leave the EU that could have very serious economic and financial implications for them and for the rest of Europe as well.

France has the sixth largest economy in the world, and over the past year French stocks are down 20 percent from the peak of the market… The French economy is really struggling these days, and we have not heard much about it in the US media, but there have been tremendous riots in major cities in France in recent weeks.

Italian stocks are down a staggering 32 percent from the peak of the market. That means approximately a third of all stock market wealth in Italy is already gone… Earlier this year, I wrote about the horrifying collapse of the Italian banking system that has greatly accelerated since the start of 2016. It looks like virtually all of their big banks will ultimately need to be bailed out, and this threatens to become a far bigger crisis than the crisis in Greece ever was.

And let us not leave off the ninth largest economy in the world. Not too long ago, CNN ran an article entitled “Brazil: Economic collapse worse than feared”. So not only are they admitting that the ninth largest economy on the globe is collapsing, they are also admitting that it is even worse than what the experts had anticipated.

US stocks did crash last August, but then they recovered. Then they crashed again in January, but then they recovered again. Now US stocks have been taking another tumble here in June, but we are being assured that there is nothing to worry about. Meanwhile, the underlying numbers for the US economy just continue to get worse and worse and worse.

We have not seen global stock declines of this nature since the great financial crisis of 2008, but much worse is still to come. I would love to be wrong about that last part. It would be wonderful if the worst was now behind us and good times for the global financial system were ahead. Unfortunately, every single indicator that I am watching is telling me just the opposite.

“I believe that the European Union is in the process of collapsing on itself for one simple reason. The two pillars on which it’s founded – Schengen and the euro – are in the process of crumbling,” Le Pen told Marie De Douhet of RT France in an exclusive interview. “So they’re in a sort of mad downward spiral in which they’re capable of anything today to try and keep this building standing.”

The leader of France’s hard-right Front National party believes the collapse is not a matter of “if” but “when,” saying the EU “shines from the light of a dead star” while its leaders are struggling to play for time “at the cost of billions trying to hold this structure up.”

Marine Le Pen has been a vocal supporter of the UK leaving the European Union, a move that the National Front hopes would inspire a similar “Frexit” campaign. According to a March poll, 53 percent of French citizens surveyed would like to hold a Brexit-like referendum on France’s membership in the EU.

When asked if she feared any consequences for a “Frexit,” or Brussels’ retribution if it should go through, Le Pen said, “If France leaves the European Union, the European Union no longer exists.”