On Monday, the House of Representatives passed a resolution of Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (Republican for Nebraska) to that effect unanimously. It took Secretary of State John Kerry until the March 17 deadline set by Congress last year to follow suit. His staff were still reviewing the evidence. Don’t they read the newspaper?

Sheila Liaugminas, who has been interviewing people all week about this concludes:

“Congressman Fortenberry told me what he’s been saying to everyone listening lately, that this is a threat to civilization itself. As of today, the US has risen to join a growing international coalition of voices and forces that can, finally, do something to stop the spread of that threat, reverse it, and protect innocent people and the existence of whole populations. What can be done is newly on the table. What will be done comes next.”

"These elections will be reflected in the history of Germany. They have looked into the future of the German democracy. They have showed how the old party system will continue to break," sueddeutsche.de said. The newspaper draws attention to the danger posed by the victory of the AfD, especially in eastern states.

"Angry German voters have ruined the old party system. The phantom of Weimar [Weimar Republic led Hitler to power] is coming from the east of the republic while gaining strength with the support from both the left and the right. The south is experiencing the collapse of the SPD, and the CDU, the golden mean of Germany's post-war policy, is falling apart. The chancellor was guided by the humane imperative towards refugees for too long," the Münchner Merkur paper said.

It is worth noting that US-owned German media do their best to stop new people on the way to ruling circles in Germany as they may take friendly moves towards Russia. This is something that Washington does not want to happen.

The loss of enthusiasm started more than a decade ago, when the lira was replaced with the single currency and, in his mind, prices doubled overnight. Then, more recently, Italy’s triple-dip recession and slow recovery — blamed by some on EU-imposed austerity — made matters worse.

But Mr Leoni’s faith in European unity — and that of many Italians — suffered a further and possibly decisive blow with the refugee crisis. Italy has taken in more than 300,000 migrants from the Middle East and Africa over the past two years, costing it well over €3 billion a year. Mr Leoni believes Italy does not have the “capacity” to “welcome all these people who go [and] live under the bridges”, partly because it has had little help from other EU states.

To the irritation of Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission president, and Angela Merkel, German chancellor, the 41-year old former mayor of Florence has lambasted the EU and its member states for pursuing a failed austerity-led economic model that risks leading the continent towards political paralysis or a populist takeover.

It's part of a broader trend that gathered steam last year when central banks sold a record $225 billion of US debt. "Foreigners have no longer been our BFF ["Best Friend Forever"] when it comes to buying US Treasuries," Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at The Lindsey Group, wrote in a client note.

So what are foreign central bankers doing with these piles of cash? They're mostly using the funds to stimulate their own economies as the global growth slowdown and crash in oil prices continue to take their toll.

Victor Saulkin: “"During the times of the Soviet Union, many in the country thought that every person in the Christian West had a gospel on their bedside table. Afterwards, it became clear that it was the Soviet Union that was protecting the world from the Golden Calf ideology. When the Soviet empire collapsed, the West assumed that Russia was dead. The country was dismembered, the defense industry and the army were destroyed. That was the time when liberal Satanism triumphed in the West.

"In Catholic Italy, a court decided to take crucifixes out from schools. This is beyond understanding. In France, millions of people took to the streets to protest against gay marriage, but no one listened to them. The West is moving towards liberal Satanism. When we talk about the Islamic extremism of ISIL, we need to understand who created ISIL and what for."

They intend to march across the East Coast in order to spark a “fire that transforms the political climate in America.” The operation, calling itself Democracy Spring, is threatening “drama in Washington” with the “largest civil disobedience action of the century.” The radicals believe this will result in the arrest of thousands of their own activists.

“We will demand that Congress listen to the People and take immediate action to save our democracy. And we won’t leave until they do — or until they send thousands of us to jail,” the website for Democracy Spring declares, channeling rhetoric from the Occupy movement. The group is backed by numerous organizations, including the George Soros-funded groups MoveOn.org, the Institute for Policy Studies, and Demos.

Black students at every major university in the country, including Harvard, Yale, and Johns Hopkins, have joined the “Black Liberation Collective” which endorses the murder of whites in a manifesto called “On Violence.” Amazingly, the University of West Georgia brags about these two anti-white debaters on its website. The duo’s passionate advocacy of white extermination has made them number 2 in the country!

White genocide is even being taught to high-school students. One of the anti-white debaters, Miguel Feliciano works as an instructor at Coppin State University’s Eddie Conway Liberation Institute, run by Professor Shanara Reid-Brinkley of the University of Pittsburg. Young black students are indoctrinated in the same anti-white ideology displayed in this debate.

Since peaking in late 2014, US exports have been steadily declining, and this is something that we never see outside of a major recession. Because our exports are falling faster than our imports, our trade deficit is blowing out once again.  Every year we buy hundreds of billions of dollars more from the rest of the world than they buy from us, and this is systematically wrecking our economy. 

Over the past several decades, we have lost tens of thousands of manufacturing facilities, millions of good paying manufacturing jobs, and major exporting nations such as China have become exceedingly wealthy at our expense. We are being absolutely killed on trade, and yet very few of our politicians ever want to talk about this.

Downing Street has refused to comment on reports that the US president will argue for the UK’s continued EU membership during his reported visit, when he would be expected to hold talks with David Cameron – who is leading the campaign to stay in the EU.

In his regular column for the Daily Telegraph, Mr Johnson criticised the US for interfering in the debate, when it defends its own sovereignty with “hysterical vigilance”. He wrote that President Obama would arrive to the UK “sometime in the next couple of months” and “pronounce on the matter”.

The Americans, he said, were “urging us down a course they would never dream of going themselves”, making the point that the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement which the US negotiated with Mexico and Canada in the 1990s was a pure trade deal without any degree of political integration, such as a EU style court, commission or Parliament. The EU, he added, was not suited to becoming a United States of Europe – as some in Washington hope – because it lacks a single culture, language or allegiance.

David Drumm, former chief executive of Irish Anglo Bank from 2005 until 2008, had been arrested in Boston in October 2015, and originally attempted to fight extradition — but he recently withdrew the objection and was returned to Ireland early on Monday.

Drumm faces 33 charges in Ireland, which echoes Iceland’s unprecedented move to hold its bankers criminally accountable for their role in that country’s economic meltdown. Though Drumm predictably denied wrongdoing, his charges include “fraud, forgery, misleading management reporting, unlawful lending, falsifying documents, and false accounting, linked to financial transactions prior to the collapse of Anglo,” according to the Irish Times.