Officials from the city of Coeur d’Alene also acknowledged that ministers who refuse to perform same-sex weddings could be subject to jail time. The admission came in the case of Donald and Evelyn Knapp, a couple who runs The Hitching Post, a wedding chapel in the Idaho city. The couple claimed the ordinance violates their First Amendment right to freedom of religion.

The case has already gotten the attention of Idaho politicians. State Senator Steve Vick says he was so disturbed by the case he was considering getting the state government out of marriage, according to WND. “It’s very disappointing to me that they would require a Christian business owner to do something that violates their religious convictions, which I believe are protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution,” Vick said.

Major indexes suffered their largest one-day drop since 2007, shattering a period of relative calm in China's volatile stock markets since Beijing unleashed a barrage of support measures to arrest a slump that began in mid-June. While the falls followed lackluster data on profit at Chinese industrial firms on Monday and a disappointing private factory sector survey on Friday, there was little to explain the scale of the sell-off.

Some analysts said fears that China may hold off from further loosening of monetary policy had contributed to souring investor sentiment. In late June and early July, Chinese authorities cut interest rates, suspended initial public offerings, relaxed margin-lending and collateral rules and enlisted brokerages to buy stocks, backed by central bank cash, to support share prices.

The battery of stabilization measures followed a peak-to-trough slump of more than 30 percent in China's benchmark indexes, which had more than doubled over the preceding year. Chinese share markets had recovered around 15 percent since then, before Monday's renewed sell-off.

Flash-forward 30 years, as Culture Club embarks on a much-hyped reunion tour, and the world has drastically changed. As George points out, now “Sam Smith can say, 'I’m gay,’ and no one goes on about it,” and Caitlyn Jenner has been enthusiastically embraced by the media and public at large. George is humble, but acknowledges that he and Culture Club helped pave the way.

"And in a funny sort of way, it’s the world that I wanted to be in. It’s that world I was fighting for in 1984. That was what I wanted. I wanted people not to care about whether you were gay, straight, black, white, transgender, whatever it may be… That being said, there’s more work to be done… I still want to change the world, absolutely. And I feel like what we did back then was part of that.”

JPMorgan’s share price hit an all-time closing high of $70.08 yesterday. The scary thing is, JPMorgan’s stock had a run from $32 to $42 just one month before Lehman Brothers blew up in 2008, marking the beginning of the biggest financial crash since the Great Depression; and there had been a year of financial warnings prior to that. (So much for global bank share prices being a bellwether on global financial stability.) Once the 2008 crash was clearly underway, JPMorgan shareholders saw 70 percent of their share price evaporate in a six-month stretch ending in March 2009.

JPMorgan is not some folksy community bank in New England with no counterparty exposure to other global banks or debt-ridden corporations. JPMorgan Chase is a global bank with over $2 trillion in assets “serving corporations and individuals in over 100 countries,” according to its web site. In February, the US Treasury’s Office of Financial Research released a report showing staggering levels of interconnected risk among global banks. JPMorgan Chase had the highest overall score for systemic and interconnected risk.

SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar on the issue of ETFs said:

“The growth of bond mutual funds and exchange-traded funds in recent years means that these funds now hold a much higher fraction of the available stock of relatively less liquid assets than they did before the financial crisis… their growth heightens the potential for a forced sale in the underlying markets if some event were to trigger large volumes of redemptions.”

We may be closer to that trigger than many investors realize. Bloomberg Business is reporting this morning that “SandRidge Energy Inc bonds have lost almost 30 percent since June, while notes of miner Cliffs Natural Resources Inc are down more than 27 percent.” The article also notes that bonds of distressed debt issuers “are on pace to lose more than 20 percent for the second straight year, the worst performance since 2008.”

Representatives of the much-hated Troika - made up of the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - arrived in the Greek capital on Friday but have been unable to find a venue, triggering security fears. "There are some logistical issues to solve, notably security-wise," said a European Commission official. "Several options are on the table."

Meanwhile, the Greek Finance Ministry has amended the capital controls enforced on the country. Greeks travelling abroad are now allowed to take €2,000 each, while shipping countries can withdraw €50,000 a day.

The return of the vilified external monitors represents one of the biggest climbdowns for the Syriza government. Leftist prime minister Alexis Tsipras campaigned ferociously to keep the Troika out of the country after five years of gruelling austerity. Bail-out officials were forced to leave the country when Syriza were elected six months ago.

Their presence on the streets of Greece has triggered public anger and attacks. Former IMF mission chief in Greece and now head of the Fund's European department Poul Thomsen can only travel to the country with a police guard. In 2013, Mr Thomsen suffered an attack on his vehicle when it was rocked by sacked public sector cleaners.

"Now is not the time to come out waving photos of bullet holes in the glass calling for more gun control and spinning the story to yield a further separation of peoples in the Unites States," he added. "Now is the time for a call on the American people to finally realize the state of the world we are living in and the enemy that we face. Now is the time to call on the American people to ignore the propaganda that special interest groups have been shoving in our faces and unite as a country so that we may become our neighbor's keeper."

Meyer not only wanted people to understand that evil exists in the Middle East in the form of Islam, but also in our home country. "Evil is not just overseas, but also here at home," he wrote. "Moments after this tragedy had occurred ISIS sent out via Twitter that they were responsible for the attacks and that the shooter, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was one of theirs. ISIS said recently that they were coming to American soil to kill members of the United States Military and now that threat has come to fruition."

In an article subtitled, “I’m a feminist. I’m a dude. And I hate that I love to grill,” Brogan writes how he’s, “uncomfortable with the pleasure I take in something so conventionally masculine. At such moments, I get the sense that I’ve fallen into a societal trap, one that reaffirms gender roles I’ve spent years trying to undo. The whole business feels retrograde, a relic of some earlier, less inclusive era.”

Brogan worries that he is, “shoving others out of the way because it makes me feel like a man,” and that BBQs reinforce, “the stain of unintentional masculine cliché,” while TV commercials that depict only men behind the grill allow guys to, “confirm their masculinity by excluding women.”

As far as I can tell, this is not an elaborate joke. Brogan actually thinks that men grilling food is inherently misogynistic. He continues, arguing that “the masculine connotations of grilling are culturally specific, and hence culturally constructed” and that this, along with “aggressive bro culture” and “lack of child care support,” has led to fewer head chef roles for women in professional kitchens.

Earlier this week, we highlighted the inane blatherings of another male feminist – Michael Sonmore – who wrote about how he allows his wife, with whom he has children aged 3 and 6, to sleep with as many men as she likes, because insisting upon monogamy is “patriarchal oppression”.

Defence chiefs fear they could launch a multi-drone attack carrying several bombs, even using airborne cameras to film the bloody carnage below for twisted propaganda videos. Senior MI5 figures believed that Isis has already tested how much plastic explosive the flying machines can carry, getting as far as experimenting with detonation devices.

A counter-terrorism source said: "Islamist plotters have been trying to launch a drone-borne bomb attack for some time, as these machines are getting more hi-tech every year. "They want the spectacular devastation of such a raid, which would cause murder and maiming in a crowd, while filming it for a sick video. Isis is obsessed with re-creating the horror of 9/11 and believes this may be possible by launching a multi-drone attack on large numbers of people in a synchronised attack."

Toy drones, which are popular with amateur photographers, are available from mainstream retailers like Amazon and Maplin and cost as little as £100. Each agile machine could carry enough explosive to kill or maim a person if detonated nearby, and the effects of a fleet of drones dropping bombs on a crowded area would be bloody and devastating. It is thought that evil Islamist fanatics could be looking to target crowds at open-air music festivals and Premier League football grounds for maximum effect.

Colonel Richard Kemp, who has advised the Government on terrorism, told the Mirror: "There is a genuine threat from Islamists wishing to deliver high explosives by drone to crowded areas. The effects could be devastating."

The Satanic Temple has said Saturday’s private event will be open only to people with tickets, $25 each. Invitations to “The Unveiling” summoned guests to prepare for “a night of chaos, noise, and debauchery… Come dance with the Devil and experience history in the making.” The event location is not being announced publicly and is known only to those with tickets.

The group said the bronze Baphomet monument, which weighs about one ton and has never been seen before in public, “is not only an unparalleled artistic triumph, but stands as a testament to plurality and the power of collective action.” The statue, which is backed by an inverted pentagram and flanked by statues of two young children gazing up at the creature, shows Satan with horns, hooves, wings and a beard.

The group went on to say the unveiling event “will serve as a call-to-arms from which we’ll kick off our largest fight to date in the name of individual rights to free exercise against self-serving theocrats.” The Satanic Temple says it advocates for the separation of church and state. It now wants to erect it outside Arkansas’ Statehouse where a Ten Commandments monument also is planned.

Up to 1 million centuries-old olive trees could be felled in one of the most picturesque tourist spots of Italy in an attempt to contain the problem. The cost of the raw material has been increasing for two years as crops have been hit by drought in Spain, the world’s biggest producer of the oil, and the bacterial disease Xylella fastidiosa, which is destroying trees in Italy.

Analysts are expecting prices to remain high in coming months as demand is increasing. Retailers and distributors wanted to buy 12% more olive oil than exporters were able to deliver last month, according to industry insiders. Buyers in Latin America have turned to Europe in the wake of poor harvests over the Atlantic, while eastern Europeans have also been using increasing amounts of olive oil.

Weighing in on the Planned Parenthood controversy for the first time since the videos went public, the self-described Roman Catholic said, "Let's have an investigation of those people who were trying to ensnare Planned Parenthood in a controversy that doesn't exist" while dismissing all claims that Planned Parenthood makes profits off selling baby organs. "Planned Parenthood has said that they have done nothing illegal," she said. "They do not ever charge, which would be illegal, for fetal tissue. They have only defrayed the cost of mailing that to someone, which is not breaking the law."

Pelosi's remarks echoed that of White House press secretary Josh Earnest just a day earlier, who defended Planned Parenthood's actions as perfectly legal while decrying the videos as being "selectively edited." Congressional Republicans have been engaging in full-frontal assault against the abortion conglomerate in recent days using the videos from the Center for Medical Progress as ammunition.

Currently, as many as 80 Congress members have co-sponsored bill HR 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, which would effectively end all federal funding — several hundred million dollars — to the abortion giant. Investigations into Planned Parenthood's alleged criminal activity have been ordered by House Speaker John Boehner (Republican for Ohio) and several governors across the country.

Nancy Pelosi rejects all congressional investigations or attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, believing the real culprit in this matter is the Center for Medical Progress, whom she said should be probed by the Department of Justice, headed by Loretta Lynch, a past supporter of partial-birth abortion.

In this age of perverted justice and government-sanctioned tyranny, the Constitution is no safeguard against government wrongdoing such as SWAT team raids, domestic surveillance, police shootings of unarmed and unthreatening citizens, indefinite detentions, asset forfeitures, prosecutorial misconduct, etc. Today in the United States of America citizens are as unprotected by law as the aristocracy in England prior to the Magna Carta.

America has far more in common with the Medieval dungeon state than it does with the Declaration of Independence. In a country in which the citizens have no protection from the state and can be shot down in their streets and homes by unaccountable police, detained indefinitely without charges or conviction, executed on suspicion alone without due process of law, there is no freedom, no democracy, no accountability of government to the people.

The United States of America is no longer the hope of mankind. The USA has become the source of evil and dread. Will America destroy the world as well as itself?

The Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement (also known as the Temple Faithful Movement) plans to march to the Temple Mount at 11 am on Sunday, the Movement's head Gershon Salomon told Arutz Sheva on Thursday. Salomon said the march is meant to mourn the "destruction of the Holy Third Temple by Israel's enemies" - in other words the prevention of the construction of the Third Temple, which is said to prelude the final redemption, due to the presence of hostile Muslim forces on the holy site.

Likewise the protest is meant to mourn how Hamas and Islamic State (ISIS) are allowed to go around "carrying their flags" on the Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. During the event, Salomon intends to call on the Israeli government "to remove the enemies from the Holy Temple Mount, to return the Holy Temple Mount to Israel and to immediately rebuild the Holy Third Temple."

During the hearing, titled “Oversight of the Administration’s Misdirected Immigration Enforcement Policies: Examining the Impact on Public Safety and Honoring the Victims,” Wilkerson broke from her written testimony to deliver a dire warning. “This was our family’s 9/11 terrorist attack by a foreign invader,” she said at the most pivotal point in her testimony. “It is going to take another life lost by a Senator, a Congressman, the President, even another of today’s heroes, someone from Hollywood before someone in a position moves on this.”

“My son’s name was Joshua Wilkerson,” she began. “On November 16, 2010, he was beaten, strangled, tortured until he died. He was tied up, thrown in a field, and set on fire. His killer, Hermilo Moralez, was brought here illegally by his illegal parents when he was ten years old, so he fit the ‘DREAM’ kid description. He was sentenced to life in prison, which means it will be 30 years before he’s up for parole. He’ll be a 49-year-old man, who I don’t expect to be deported. And I just hope he doesn’t come to live in your city.”

Ms Wilkerson’s son was murder by an illegal immigrant who, because he came to the country as a minor, would have qualified for Obama’s 2012 executive amnesty granted to illegal immigrant minors — or so-called DREAMers, whom Obama insists “belong here.” Wilkerson took a deep breath and continued, looking at the senators before her with a steady gaze. “He was kicked so hard in the stomach that it sent his spleen into his spine, and sliced it in two… The medical examiner said it was torture.” She returned to the text of the autopsy: “‘This body has significant skin loss on his buttocks, his abdomen, his penis, his hands, and his face. He has one stick of gum and a tardy slip in his pocket.’”

“This was our family’s 9/11 terrorist attack by a foreign invader, whether you want to recognize it or whether you do not,” Wilkerson said. “This government continues to fail or even recognize that we have an issue. Americans are dying daily at the hands of criminals that we don’t even know are here.”

“You’re officially notified today there’s a problem when this happens. You can’t deny it any longer. You cannot stand by and ignore our families — our American families. You’re elected by Americans, not any other country. You should be for Americans,” she emphasized. “If you want to sit quietly on the sidelines, you’ve thrown your hat into the ring already. Your silence speaks volumes. You’re either for Americans, or you’re not.”

“I want you to know that our family is broken, forever. We are forever broken. I don’t want the sympathy. I want you to do something about it. Every one of you sitting here is in a position to do something. Just throw your hat into the ring for Americans. Quit sitting silent because it’s going to help you get a vote. Throw your hat in the ring and take care of American families.”