Glick told Breaking Israel News that there are billions of dollars worth of gold in Mount Eilat, which he and his partner, Yehoshua Friedman, have received an exclusive license to unearth by the Israeli government. Explaining the discovery, Glick said that everything began with Friedman, a Temple Mount researcher who had been studying each of the 12 unique stones set on the breastplate of the High Priest as described in the Bible. Each stone represents one of the 12 tribes of Israel.

During his studies, Friedman realized that without a geology background he could not properly appreciate the depths and meanings behind each of these stones. This led to his discovery that in 2007 gold had been found in the mountains of Eilat by an Australian research team, who later abandoned the dig because the value of gold at the time was not worth their efforts.

When asked what these modern day Biblical explorers plan to do with their billions in gold, Rabbi Glick replied, “Ultimately, we expect to use the gold in the rebuilding of the Third Temple. Whether we use the gold itself for creating vessels and decoration or by selling the findings and using the money to buy the materials and manpower needed to rebuild the Temple, we look forward to that great day!”

We’re so politically correct these days, that pretty soon we’re going to have people who want to be respected for the anime characters or inanimate objects they really feel they are inside or… well, really the sky is apparently the limit so go ahead and fill in the blank. What’s next, someone who is 15 really feels they are 21 inside so they should be legally recognized as old enough to buy alcohol? Or how about a 15 year old who really feels he is 85 so he should get social security benefits because he’s “trans-aged”? Then what? Transanimals (a guy who thinks he’s really a narwhal)? Transoccupationals (a bus driver who thinks she’s really a movie star?) Transmuppets (some dude who really thinks he’s Big Bird)?

And since the media made such a huge deal out of Bruce Jenner’s transformation into Caitlyn, it really wouldn’t be fair not to follow that slippery slope all the way down to the bottom equally for everyone else, now would it? That wouldn’t be the politically correct thing to do. If we have to respect and celebrate Caitlyn Jenner for who “she” really is, then logic does follow that we should also have to equally respect some guy who claims he feels handicapped even though he really isn’t… right?

I guess in that case I’m transonepercenter. I feel I really should’ve been born the multi-millionaire that I really am inside… (Where’s my check?)

The president won elections in March on a promise to tackle corruption, seen as one of the country's biggest problems. Nigeria is Africa's biggest oil producer but much of the revenue is said to be stolen. "The days of impunity and lack of accountability are over," he told a meeting of state governors on Tuesday.

He said Nigeria would get the "facts and the figures to help us recover our stolen funds in foreign countries,'' over the next three months. He did not specify which other countries had agreed to help recover the money. In an earlier briefing with journalists, he said it was a "disgrace" that some government workers had not been paid for months.

If it fails to do so, it risks crashing out of the euro and possibly the EU. After the talks ended on Monday evening, Mrs Merkel said that everyone taking part wanted Greece to stay in the eurozone, "myself included". "The proposals offered by Greece today constitute some progress. However, it became clear during our discussions that there is a lot of work to be done and time is short," she said.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras also met the heads of Greece's three international creditors - the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB) - in Brussels. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker - one of the key power-brokers - told a late-night news conference: "I am convinced that we will come to a final agreement in the course of this week". However, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble was more negative, saying he had seen nothing new from Athens.

And there was some pessimism from Greece itself, with deputy parliament speaker and Syriza lawmaker Alexis Mitropoulos reportedly telling Greek TV that lawmakers would find it "difficult to pass" the latest package of reforms.

To give just one example of the complexities Mr Theocharis wrestled with: in Greece there are six different rates of VAT. The normal rate is 23% - there are two reduced ones for items such as food, fuel and medicine. But the Greek Islands enjoy reduced rates of VAT to encourage people to stay in remote parts of the country and to help the vital tourism industry there. That makes six rates in all, and creates plenty of opportunities for dodging tax.

Greece also has a pension system that is amazingly complex, with numerous exceptions for different jobs allowing for early retirement. The pensions are not very generous on average, but overall the Greek government is spending 30% more on pensions than the British government does. The whole system is in desperate need of simplification in order to make it cheaper to run.

Then there are the cuts that have been reversed, such as the reopening after two years of the state broadcasting company ERT, which started programmes again this year. The problem therefore is not so much that Greece is incapable of reform or does not know what needs doing, but that it has wasted five years of the bailout without making serious attempts to fix the structural problems that beset the economy - and in many cases it is actually going backwards.

If it had started five years ago, it might have been seeing the results by now as countries like Ireland and Spain have done, but one of the reasons that the Greek bailout has reached another crisis point is that it has hardly started. It is not the kind of record that is likely to make the countries that are lending Greece all that money trust them with some more.

The greatest danger to the euro is not that Greece leaves, but that its rejection of economic rationality encourages other, larger states to follow suit. If Greece is able to have its cake (a sound currency) and eat it (by refusing to reform its welfare state and by relying on handouts), radicals in Spain or Italy will eventually demand the same for themselves. Greece is containable; the Club Med giants wouldn’t be.

Forcing Greece out of the euro would be a gamble, of course, and the markets may panic, but there is a good chance that contagion could be prevented. Allowing Greece to thumb its nose at those who try to live within their means would be far more risky. In this case, if it had any sense, the EU would agree to a tactical retreat and allow Greece to walk away from its debts and from the euro.

This would also be good for the Greeks themselves, even though they would suffer in the short term. The latest proposals on VAT, pensions and the rest don’t change the fundamental problem. Greece must devalue its currency: that is the only way that its economy can possibly bounce back. A weaker currency – a new, freely floating drachma – would boost exports and attract far more tourists.

Europe’s leaders need to accept that Greece cannot thrive unless its debts are written off, and that this wouldn’t be acceptable to other countries unless it also exited the euro. For everybody’s sake, it is time to set Greece free.

The centre-Right mayor’s latest broadside against Britain came as aid agencies in Calais are warning that the migrant crisis has reached record levels, with the population having swollen from around 1,000 in April to 3,000 this month and hundreds more expected in the coming weeks. Aid workers warned that some of the sprawling makeshift campsites, known locally as the Jungle, have become so large as to be untenable.

Speaking to France Info radio, Ms Bouchart said: “I am calling for a diplomatic incident with the British government. We are forced to endure situations that are inexplicable.” “Great Britain must either enter Europe with all the conditions of Schengen, or leave Europe, but there comes a time when we can no longer be held hostage.” She insisted that the UK would help matters if it introduced “drastic” new rules making it harder for migrants to live and work in Britain, thus lowering its attractiveness. She has previously accused the UK of turning a blind eye to illegal immigrants working in the black economy.

We ask these questions to the Vice-President of Germany’s Left Party and Member of the Bundestag. Sahra Wagenknecht is on Sophie&Co today.

Sophie Shevardnadze: The President of the European Council Donald Tusk has said that toughening of sanctions against Russia is unlikely, he’s also admitted that there’s a group of EU members that wants an end to these sanctions. Is there a chance that there will be a change of EU policies in this regard?

Sahra Wagenknecht: I really hope so, because it’s obvious that these sanctions have no positive results. They have a harmful influence on the Russian economy. They have a harmful influence on the European economy. In Germany a number of enterprises are suffering from a drop of their sales levels. This policy is absolutely meaningless, and that’s why we call for an end to these sanctions. I don’t know if the EU will move in this direction, everything depends on the pressure it’s under. But we won’t be able to reach an understanding with these tools; we won’t be able to move forward, to build better relations. On the contrary, our relations will only become worse.

SS: You believe that new sanctions against Russia would be fatal for the EU. Why can’t Europe give up this policy? An economic war against Russia also means a slowdown for German economy, for all sides of the conflict.

SW: If Europe followed an independent policy, if European politicians put Europe’s interests first, they would immediately call for the lifting of sanctions. The problem is that somebody is in favor of these sanctions, the United States want them to stay in place. It’s well known that American energy corporations would like to push Russian gas out of Europe and fill the vacant spots in the energy market with their own shale gas. The United States are actually harming the European economy. There aren’t a lot of American corporations on the European markets, so sanctions are causing damage to Europe itself.

SS: You believe the US is deliberately pulling Europe into a confrontation with Russia. Why isn’t dialogue possible? If I understand correctly, you think US is dictating its policies to the EU, why are EU states eager to comply, why not go against the US?

SW: Of course the politicians, those behind EU strategies are under US pressure. It is clear that the goal of American foreign policy is to aggravate tensions between Germany and Russia, to aggravate tensions between Europe and Russia. And NATO is a tool the US uses to spread its interests, to extend its sphere of influence. Why do Europeans participate in all this? That’s something to think about.

“These attacks may presage a new era in which centralized leadership of a terrorist organization matters less, group identity is more fluid and violent extremist narratives focus on a wider range of alleged grievances and enemies with which lone actors may identify and seek to carry out self-directed attacks,” reads the report.

Case in point: The shootings in Garland, Texas, and their aftermath. In the past five weeks, nine young men in Garland, Boston, and most recently New York and New Jersey, have either been arrested for allegedly attempting to carry out ISIS-inspired attacks, or killed by law enforcement in a confrontation.

The attack in Garland, where two men opened fire outside a “Draw Muhammad” contest, was the first ISIS-inspired attack launched on US soil. The shooters, Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi, only managed to superficially injure a security guard, before they were killed. The reactions on social media to the Garland attack and to the arrests of individuals in other cities offers a microcosm into how ISIS’s social media campaign is operating on a grassroots level, and how law enforcement is trying to nip the epidemic in the bud.

“They’re very good at communicating through separate avenues where it’s very difficult to track,” Nunes said. “That’s why when you get a young person who is willing to get into these chat rooms, go on the Internet and get radicalized, it’s something we are not only unprepared [for], we are also not used to it in this country.”

Several Americans across the US have been arrested and charged recently with being ISIS sympathizers and trying to join the terror group. Nunes stated “we are having a tough time tracking terrorist cells within the United States.”

“It’s just tough to secure those types of areas if you have someone who wants to blow themselves up or open fire or other threats of that nature and we just don’t know or can track all of the bad guys that are out there today,” he explained to “Face the Nation.”

The bill, if approved into law, could complicate the ongoing talks in Vienna between Iran and the six-nation group — the US, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany — as they face a self-imposed June 30 deadline. The talks are focused on reaching a final accord that curbs Iran’s nuclear program in return for the lifting of economic sanctions. Of 213 lawmakers present on Sunday, 199 voted in favor of the bill, which also demands the complete lifting of all sanctions against Iran as part of any final nuclear accord. The bill must be ratified by the Guardian Council, a constitutional watchdog, to become a law.

The terms stipulated in the bill allow for international inspections of Iranian nuclear sites, but forbid any inspections of military facilities. Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani read the bill aloud in a session broadcast live on state radio. It states in part, “The International Atomic Energy Agency, within the framework of the safeguard agreement, is allowed to carry out conventional inspections of nuclear sites.”

However it concludes that “access to military, security and sensitive non-nuclear sites, as well as documents and scientists, is forbidden.”

The criminals call their victim pretending to be from their bank and persuade the account-holder to transfer money directly into the hands of the thieves. Innocent people are talked into making the bank transfers by highly-convincing scammers who often claim a fraud has been detected on a victim's bank account and they have to act fast by moving their money into a so-called "safe account".

The crime sounds too unsophisticated to be successful, but figures compiled for the first time by a national anti-fraud agency showed a staggering £23.6 million was stolen last year by simply persuading victims to hand over their money in this way. Police believe the scam is becoming more common.

In some cases the criminals will tell their victim to hang up the telephone and call another number but will stay on the line, leaving the connection unbroken so they can “answer” the victim’s call. The scammers may also use technological expertise to change the outgoing number of their telephone line so the victim’s handset or caller display appears to show their bank’s genuine telephone number.

Financial Fraud Action (FFA UK) launched an awareness-raising campaign warning about the growing use of direct bank transfer frauds. Criminals increasingly try to minimise the risk of arrest by never coming into direct contact with their victim, the FFA UK said. Banks or police will never ask someone to withdraw money to hand over to them for safe-keeping or ask them to transfer money to a new account for safe-keeping, even if they claim it will be held in that person's name. Banks or the police will never send someone to a person's home to collect their cash, “Pin” number, payment card or cheque book if they are a victim of fraud.

Lieutenant John Walker told reporters that an 18-month-old girl was hit in the neck, an 11-year-old boy was shot in the leg and back and a 12-year-old-boy was struck in the chest. There were also apparently two blasts from a shotgun. It is remarkable that no one was killed. Police believe that the gunfire was a result of ongoing feuding between two groups of people.

The two shootings constituted black on black violence, and as such do not neatly fit the constant barrage of race baiting division currently being pumped out by the mainstream media. This is why you probably didn’t hear about the incidents until now.

Whether Greece exits the eurozone or not (and it is an increasingly absurd charade), there remain a number of uncomfortable truths that the rest of the countries of Europe, whether in the eurozone, the EU or neither will have to confront. The first is that Greece is a failing state, something that will have implications far beyond the merely financial. Long before the financial crisis hit the global economy in 2008-09, Greece was in trouble.

The combination of structural economic weakness and high structural deficits were compounded by a culture where tax evasion and corruption are both widespread and, to a large extent, acceptable. In the six years from 2004, Greek output increased in nominal terms by 40 per cent, while government spending rose by 87 per cent and tax revenues rose by a mere 31 per cent. The European authorities charged with overseeing the single currency should have acted then. Their failure to do so has been partly to blame for today’s crisis.

It does not matter how much money is now thrown at Greece, Thessalonica will not be Düsseldorf any time soon. The cultural gap between the hard-working and profit focused north of Europe could not be more different from this southerly neighbour where masseurs can retire early on a state pension because it is regarded as hard and damaging physical labour.

A Grexit will be no panacea, and might even create its own array of difficulties. Even if Greece leaves the single currency, it will still have phenomenal financial problems, at least in the short and medium term, which need to be addressed and the danger is that it will suck in both Chinese and Russian money, becoming a strategic liability for the rest of Europe and the Nato alliance more widely. Russia is, for example, keen to have allies who will block the renewal of EU sanctions over Ukraine.

The uncomfortable truth to be faced is that the euro is a fundamentally flawed project. This, of course, comes as no surprise to those of us who have been predicting from its very inception that it spells trouble. The haste in which it was created and the fact that it was always more a political project than an economic one, has built chronic instability into its architecture. We have now reached the point where the euro does not have a problem – the euro is the problem.