McCrory is under continued assault from a highly organized and very rich coterie of homosexual organizations and their friends in business and the entertainment world for his defense of women and girls who do not want biological men urinating and showering with them. PayPal canceled an expansion into Charlotte. Bruce Springsteen cancelled a concert, as did Ringo Starr. The NBA is threatening to pull the All-Star Game. And dozens of other major corporations have complained about the law.

Transsexual advocates cast the issue as one of discrimination, that biological men have a right to urinate and shower with biological women and girls. The Detroit Free Press this week editorialized that it is a violation of their Constitutional rights not to be allowed in girls’ bathrooms and showers.

Leading the fight to intimidate McCrory and state law-makers is the $50 million-a-year anti-Christian Human Rights Campaign. Fresh off their victory in forcing gay marriage on the country, some gay pressure groups actually closed their doors, others have been concerned with how to keep their coffers full, their doors open, and the LGBT issue on the boil after seemingly having won everything they wanted. Standing up for “men in dresses” has certainly kept the LGBT issue on the boil and, presumably, the cash flowing.

Quoted by the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Tuesday, the draft dispenses with the central limitations imposed on German imperialism following its defeat in two world wars and amounts to a blueprint for the establishment of a new German police and military state. The draft contains three central points. These include the deployment of the armed forces domestically, and extension of foreign military missions, independently of post-war allies, together with a strengthening of the Federal Security Council.

On the domestic use of the army it states: “The character and dynamic of present and future security policy threats make a further development necessary in order that the Bundeswehr can make an effective contribution to countering threats on the internal and external borders on a clear basis.”

In plain English: The prohibition of deploying the Bundeswehr at home, as well as the separation of the police and army, which is constitutionally enshrined due to the experiences under the Kaiser, during the Weimar Republic and under the Nazi dictatorship, are to be thrown overboard. Although these principles have been continually eroded ever since the 1968 Emergency Laws, a deployment of the army inside Germany has so far been prohibited.

Trump blasted Republican leadership in Colorado after Cruz grabbed 34 delegates in the state’s convention on Saturday. “It’s a totally corrupt, rigged system,” he said. And just yesterday, BizPac Review reported how the delegate system in Colorado changed in March in an effort to strip Trump of delegates, despite Republican National Committee (RNC) spokespersons claiming otherwise.

What occurred in Colorado, though, is just a fraction of what is yet to come in the next month. In a meeting behind closed doors yesterday, GOP party leaders met in Indiana to select 21 delegates that are expected to be anti-Trump, even though voters don’t get to vote for another three weeks in the state, according to Bloomberg News.

This is the same process which occurred in Colorado, where delegates are chosen for candidates ahead of an actual primary election by GOP voters, essentially nullifying votes. A similar situation is expected to follow in Wyoming, where 14 delegates are chosen at the state primary’s convention, the majority of which are reportedly anti-Trump.

Six adults and six children – apparently chosen at random – passed in hours from being inmates of a “closed” facility in Greece to new arrivals in continental Europe, where they will receive all the help the Holy See can provide.

The Pope’s dramatic gesture during an intensely emotional visit to Lesbos was intended as a pointed signal to Europe. But aid workers noted that he had left behind another 53,000 migrants in Greece – and 3,000 in the overcrowded camp from which chance had allowed the fortunate 12 to be liberated.

The Pope also rued the fate of those who drowned while making the perilous journey across the Aegean from Turkey. En route to Lesbos, he described how the sea had become the “cemetery” for the “worst humanitarian disaster since the Second World War”.

When he arrived in Lesbos, Pope Francis was driven to Moria camp. Journalists are usually barred from entering this disused army barracks, where careful preparations had been made for the visit.

Once inside Moria, the visitor and his entourage of bearded Greek Orthodox priests – a rare show of unity between rival Churches - received a tumultuous welcome. Tearful mothers and bewildered children gathered to shake or kiss his hand.

Time, now, is very much of the essence. A few minutes are allowed for the relatives’ final farewells before he is pronounced dead and a team of surgeons swings into action, removing his liver, kidneys and pancreas. As each organ is extracted, it is immediately transferred to separate operating theatres where medics are on hand to transplant it into a patient who lies waiting.

Slick, fast-paced and brutally efficient — while it may sound like some sci-fi scene set in the future, in fact, this chain of events unfolded in a hospital in Holland earlier this year. What, of course, makes it so extraordinary is that the man, who has not been identified, died at the hands of a doctor.

Having suffered a stroke he had decided that his quality of life was so poor that he wanted to end his life. In the Netherlands, he was able to do this because euthanasia has been legal since 2002. In that time, the numbers who have died in this way have steadily risen — this year, the figure is expected to pass 6,000, from 3,136 in 2010. Today, of all deaths in the Netherlands, 3.5 per cent are the result of euthanasia.

And then there was the case last year of physiotherapist Arnold Mulder. Having been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, the 56-year-old from Nijmegen in the Netherlands decided he wanted to end his life before becoming completely bed-ridden.

“Everyone should be able to step into a hospital and say ‘I want to donate’,” said Mr Mulder days before his death. “Hospitals should, in turn, receive all types of organ donors with open arms.” Many will respect his decision. Many more, though, may fear that modern medicine is taking us down a dark and potentially worrying path.

If his projections are accurate, our planet could be on the precipice of a wave of natural disasters unlike anything that any of us have ever experienced before. A single magnitude 8.0 earthquake in a populated area would be a disaster of historic proportions. If we were to see four of them like Roger Bilham is projecting, that would be a complete and utter nightmare.

In addition, let us not forget about all of the volcanic eruptions that have been in the news in recent weeks. According to Volcano Discovery, 38 volcanoes around the globe are erupting right now. This is definitely an unusually high number. If seismologist Roger Bilham is right and we do begin to see a series of absolutely massive earthquakes, that could dramatically change the course of world events literally overnight.

Even a single magnitude 8.0 earthquake in a major city in Japan, China or the United States would cause global markets to crash and would mean billions of dollars in economic damage. So let us hope that the crust of our planet begins to stabilize, but let us also not ignore the warnings of the scientists.

The quake shook the entire Andean country of 16 million people, causing panic as far away as the highland capital Quito and collapsing buildings and roads in several western towns hundreds of miles from the epicentre.

Vice President Jorge Glas said the death toll will likely rise further in what he called the 'worst seismic movement we have faced in decades'. He added: 'There are people trapped in various places, and we are starting rescue operations.' Ecuador's President Rafael Correa, rushing home from a trip to Italy, wrote on Twitter today: 'The immediate priority is to rescue people in the rubble… Everything can be rebuilt, but lives cannot be recovered, and that's what hurts the most.'

Coastal areas nearest the quake were worst affected, especially Pedernales, a rustic tourist spot with beaches and palm trees, where massive apartment blocks and buildings were completely flattened. There were reports of at least 163 aftershocks, mainly in the badly affected Pedernales area, and a state of emergency was declared in six provinces.

In a matter of just hours, Europe’s migrant crisis has escalated following the unexpected announcement Wednesday night by Austria’s Defense Minister Hans Peter Doskozil that his country is prepared to close its border if Italy does not get its migrant problem under control.

After Italy sharply criticized the Austrian plan, Switzerland has declared it is considering posting tanks to secure its own border with Italy. “We expect a significant increase in the number of refugees this summer. If Austria now closes off the Brenner Pass, Switzerland will become the only gateway to Northern Europe. Before that, we have to protect ourselves,” said Norman Gobbi, the security director of the Swiss Canton of Ticino.

The Obama administration has lobbied Congress to block the bill’s passage, according to administration officials and congressional aides from both parties, and the Saudi threats have been the subject of intense discussions in recent weeks between lawmakers and officials from the State Department and the Pentagon. The officials have warned senators of diplomatic and economic fallout from the legislation.

Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, delivered the kingdom’s message personally last month during a trip to Washington, telling lawmakers that Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell up to $750 billion in treasury securities and other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen by American courts.

The administration, which argues that the legislation would put Americans at legal risk overseas, has been lobbying so intently against the bill that some lawmakers and families of September 11 victims are infuriated. In their view, the Obama administration has consistently sided with the kingdom and has thwarted their efforts to learn what they believe to be the truth about the role some Saudi officials played in the terrorist plot.

“It’s stunning to think that our government would back the Saudis over its own citizens,” said Mindy Kleinberg, whose husband died in the World Trade Center on September 11 and who is part of a group of victims’ family members pushing for the legislation.

Now, CNN wants to make sure women aren't encouraged to pursue anything that might be called "natural," starting with breastfeeding (but not stopping there). CNN's greatest fear, of course, is that women might begin to see vaccine injections as a type of "artificial immunity" - which they are, of course - and begin to reject them.

Thus, the network believes that the best way to ensure vaccine compliance among women is to start berating breastfeeding and assaulting anything a women does that might be considered more "natural" than being injected with a cocktail of dead viruses blended with mercury and aluminum.

CNN, in other words, has gone "full retard" on the issue of women's health. This is the same network that claims anyone who opposes partial-birth abortions is attacking women's health; yet somehow breastfeeding is bad at CNN, where nourishing a child with mother's milk is somehow considered a bizarre, barbaric act.