The ex-Polish prime minister, who worked with David Cameron on his renegotiation of Britain’s EU relationship, also claimed now is the wrong moment to push ahead with further integration between all 28 member states. Speaking less than four weeks before the UK’s historic in/out referendum on EU membership, Mr Tusk delivered a candid speech to federalist euro politicians.

Top EU bosses have consistently warned Britain exiting the EU on June 23 could spark the entire break-up of the bloc. Addressing the European People’s Party to mark the 40th anniversary of the europhile group, Mr Tusk acknowledged “the spectre of a break-up is haunting Europe”. He said: “Obsessed with the idea of instant and total integration, we failed to notice that ordinary people, the citizens of Europe, do not share our Euro-enthusiasm.”

“Disillusioned with the great visions of the future, they demand that we cope with the present reality better than we have been doing until now. Today, Euro-scepticism, or even Euro-pessimism have become an alternative to those illusions. And increasingly louder are those who question the very principle of a united Europe. The spectre of a break-up is haunting Europe and a vision of a federation doesn't seem to me like the best answer to it.”

Back in February, I warned that escalating tensions in the region could be the spark that sets off World War III, but things seemed to cool down a bit in March and April. However, this latest move by Turkey threatens to take the war in Syria to a whole new level, and everyone will be watching to see how the Russians and the Iranians respond to this ground incursion.

Most Americans simply do not understand how insane Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan truly is. Our “ally” has essentially become a dictator, and he is obsessed with recreating the old Ottoman empire. These days, political rallies in support of Erdogan are quite reminiscent of what Nazi rallies under Adolf Hitler were like, and there is a nationalistic fervor in Turkey right now that is so intense that it is hard to describe it to someone in the western world. It is fueled by the rise of radical Islam, but what is going on in Turkey is broader than that. It is extremely dangerous, and yet nobody in the US criticizes Erdogan because he is our “friend”.

Are you starting to see how dangerous this man is? Our “ally” is an egomaniac dictator that dreams of recreating the Ottoman Empire, and he now has troops positioned in both Iraq and Turkey. And if he isn’t careful, Erdogan may end up starting a major war which would ultimately involve the United States. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail before events start spinning entirely out of control.

Look around you today. Domesticity has a central place in British culture: knitting has become trendy; The Great British Bake Off is a phenomenon that grips the nation, watched by many millions more than tune in for crass talent shows; middle-class kitchens heave under the weight of assorted cookery books; and cupcake baking has even made it on to the agenda for hen weekends. It’s clear that the WI’s vision of feminism is coming into its own.

This is a battle that the WI has been fighting for many decades, and which was first made explicit in the war years. As a member explained to the WI magazine Home and Country in 1941, feminism could be rooted not just in equal rights. It was also important “to show that women doing their own traditional and specific job of running a household and bringing up a family should be considered as important, as responsible and as much worthy of respect as women doing the kind of job that can be done equally well by either sex; and that their work is just as vital if not more so.”

As the process continues, the researchers say robots can become more suitable for use in unknown environments that could be hazardous to humans, like deep sea mines or even other planets. 'We have two robots that meet and mate, and just as in the animal kingdom, this results in a baby,' says Guszti Eiben, Professor of Artificial Intelligence at VU, in a video explaining the concept. The robots live, work, and reproduce in an 'Arena,' where they are able to select a suitable mating partner.

They learn through motivation, the researchers explain, and in this case, they are motivated to walk toward a red light. When the two robots come together, they are then able to communicate and even mate. 'When they evaluate each other favorably, they send their genomes through the Wi-Fi network,' says Milan Jelisavcic, a PhD student at the university.

'A sexual reproduction mechanism then creates the new genome. Code of this genome is sent to the 3D printer then, for printing new components.' During a year-and-a-half development period, the researchers were able to achieve the implementation of a full life cycle. When the parent robots 'reproduce,' their features are randomly recombined. This includes the brain – software – and the hardware.

'With evolutionary techniques, we evolve the neural networks of the robots,' explains Jacqueline Heinerman, PhD student at VU, in the video.These neural networks are responsible for their behaviors. The lab also contains a 'Birth Clinic' and a 'Nursery' for the robotic child, and once born, each must undergo a learning process. If it is deemed satisfactory, the child then becomes an adult, and potentially, a parent. Researchers say this marks the start of a new era – the Industrial Evolution. In this state, machines could autonomously operate and reproduce.

One day, they say, this new form of evolution could even play a critical role in the colonization of Mars. 'What does it all mean? It means a proof of concept,' Eiben explains in the video. 'And the concept we prove is the evolution of robots and physical hardware. For science this means that artificial evolution can break out of computer simulations and enter the real world.'

The behavioral trend, reflected in an annual survey conducted between 1973 and 2014, was fueled largely by people who had sex with both men and women. There has been little change in the number of people reporting exclusively homosexual behavior.

The survey found that only 1.7 percent of men and 0.9 percent of women said they had exclusively homosexual sex. "More and more young people today are sort of rejecting those very strict labels of gay, straight, or bisexual and saying, 'I'm fluid or queer'," Wells said.

As reported by Reader Supported News, 48 MEPs from 13 different European Union countries participated in the test to see if they had been exposed to the cancer-linked weedkiller – and now the results are in. According to the test results from the accredited Biocheck Laboratory in Germany, "all participants excreted glyphosate by urine." That's right – every single one.

Spearheaded by the Green Party in the European Parliament – who are hoping for a ban on the toxic herbicide across the EU – the experiment found that on average the MEPs each had 1.7 micrograms/liter of glyphosate in their urine – which is 17 times higher than that found in European drinking water (on average 0.1 microgram/liter).

This shows that glyphosate is entering our bodies not only from drinking water, but from the food chain – as everyone tested was way above the limit for residues of pesticides in drinking water, as Reader Supported News noted. The report states that: "All investigated EU-parliament members were glyphosate contaminated. This will show glyphosate is also in the food chain of members of the EU-parliament."

Meanwhile, the US government continues to allow glyphosate to be used in public spaces, for agriculture and even in your back yard.

Last year's landmark Supreme Court decision guaranteeing marriage equality in all 50 States was a historic victory for LGBT Americans, ensuring dignity for same-sex couples and greater equality across State lines.

LGBT individuals deserve to know their country stands beside them. That is why my Administration is striving to better understand the needs of LGBT adults and to provide affordable, welcoming, and supportive housing to aging LGBT Americans.

There remains much work to do to extend the promise of our country to every American, but because of the acts of courage of the millions who came out and spoke out to demand justice and of those who quietly toiled and pushed for progress, our Nation has made great strides in recognizing what these brave individuals long knew to be true in their hearts - that love is love and that no person should be judged by anything but the content of their character.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2016 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to eliminate prejudice everywhere it exists, and to celebrate the great diversity of the American people.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this thirty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand sixteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fortieth.

BARACK OBAMA

In the following interview with Infowars.com Special Forces commando Tim Kennedy weighs in, describing the current situation as a trench having been dug and filled with accelerants just waiting to be ignited. Kennedy is a continuity of government expert, which means he’s well versed in not only how the powder keg of civil unrest could potentially explode, but what The-Powers-That-Be will do once it does.

“For civil unrest to happen you have to have a bunch of little things that set up for the perfect situation. You have to have a reason. People are so emotionally involved in this Presidential election right now… and finally for the first time realizing there is something wrong with our country… the eyes are open… we know that something’s not right.

Even though we have a President saying ‘I’m trying to break down borders’ we’ve never had so much hate between different racial segments… what’s even more scary is that we know all of these things individually are setting up the perfect opportunity for serious civil unrest…

Now that we’re moving into summer… we’re moving into the Presidential election… we’re sending troops into Iraq… we’re looking at groups and segments of people who are supporting specific Presidential nominees… We have a perfect conducive environment for some serious problems… you think riots in Missouri were bad? Just wait until July… wait until August. The trench has been dug and it is full of accelerants… everything is right for things to go very wrong.”

Kennedy warns that once civil unrest happens on a nationwide scale, you’d better have taken steps to prepare, because just as we saw in Venezuela, Argentina and elsewhere during such tense periods, essential goods disappear from the shelves almost overnight.

In short, should widespread civil unrest, whether this summer or at any point in the future, spread across America and be followed by military and law enforcement intervention, you absolutely cannot depend on the government to be there to provide any meaningful assistance. As Tim Kennedy has highlighted, the trenches have been dug and the accelerant has been poured. All we’re waiting for now is the spark.

Soros, whose real name, by the way, is György Schwartz, laid the foundation for his fortune during WWII. His family lived in Hungary back then and collaborated with the National Socialists. When the Germans occupied Hungary, Soros ran currency trades on the black market — an activity that was punishable by death. He described this time as “the happiest time in my entire life”. His family was spared because during the subsequent Soviet occupation it also collaborated with the military intelligence service GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate).

This mixture of opportunism and greed has made George Soros into who and what he is today: a schemer who instigates revolutions and coups while calling himself a “philanthropist”. Due to his good relations with the media, he hardly risks acquiring a negative image, neither in the US nor in Europe nor in the major mainstream media. People in these media companies aren't interested in finding out who is behind these protest movements, as long as they follow the political objectives of the media moguls.

Whether it is the “Arab Spring” (which developed into a slaughter), the Maidan protests (including the subsequent coup and civil war), the “Syrian refugee crises” (with his assistance bringing people to Europe), or “Occupy Wall Street” (an attack on his rivals), “Open Borders” (how else would one stir up commotion?), the “Anti-Trump protests” (paid riots for negative press) and the “Ferguson unrest” together with the “Black Lives Matter” movement intended to instigate a race war in the US – these are all examples of how subversively Soros acts through his organizations and associates.

It is becoming more and more obvious how dangerous the likes of multi-billionaire Soros can be – they use their wealth to cause commotion and revolutions to their advantage. If only every government in the world were to throw out the many organizations supported by Soros and other multi-billionaires, we might have a little more peace on the planet.

But at the end of months of negotiations, there remained one small, yet crucial, catch: King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud demanded the country’s Treasury purchases stay “strictly secret,” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by Bloomberg from the National Archives database.

With a handful of Treasury and Federal Reserve officials, the secret was kept for more than four decades — until now. In response to a Freedom-of-Information-Act request submitted by Bloomberg News, the Treasury broke out Saudi Arabia’s holdings for the first time this month after “concluding that it was consistent with transparency and the law to disclose the data,” according to spokeswoman Whitney Smith. The $117 billion trove makes the kingdom one of America’s largest foreign creditors.

Exactly how much of America’s debt Saudi Arabia actually owns is something that matters more now than ever before. While oil’s collapse has deepened concern that Saudi Arabia will need to liquidate its Treasuries to raise cash, a more troubling worry has also emerged: the specter of the kingdom using its outsize position in the world’s most important debt market as a political weapon, much as it did with oil in the 1970s.

In April, Saudi Arabia warned it would start selling as much as $750 billion in Treasuries and other assets if Congress passes a bill allowing the kingdom to be held liable in US courts for the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to the New York Times. The threat comes amid a renewed push by presidential candidates and legislators from both the Democratic and Republican parties to declassify a 28-page section of a 2004 US government report that is believed to detail possible Saudi connections to the attacks. The bill, which passed the Senate on May 17, is now in the House of Representatives.

The letter did not clarify what HSBC meant by “offensive” or “nuisance”, and did not explain under what circumstances bank staff would be able to inspect the boxes. It asked clients to sign and return the letter within one month to confirm their acceptance of the updated conditions, so “we [HSBC] can continue providing you with the Safe Deposit Locker services”.

“This is a ridiculous and grossly invasive power which makes a nonsense of the whole purpose of a safety deposit box,” the Post quotes Barrister Neville Sarony, SC as saying. “Granting HSBC the unlimited right to snoop in your box and dispose of its contents without prior warning makes a total nonsense of the word ‘safe’.”

“HSBC has a clear commitment to defend the integrity of the financial system against activities such as money laundering,” a spokesman told the Post. “We want to reassure … these changes to the terms and conditions will not in any way reduce the security and privacy of our safe deposit locker service.” This appears to be an escalation in the direction of harassing those who prefer to keep their funds in the form of, say, cash or gold.

Last April, JPMoragnChase sent a letter to safety deposit customers announcing that cash would be prohibited from being stored in the bank's safety deposit boxes.