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.

In the 1940's, when Winston Churchill called for "a kind of United States of Europe", did he foresee what was to follow? Would he approve? He talked of the European "family" and called for the creation of the Council of Europe (which still exists today), but he also said "we are with Europe but not of it. We are linked but not comprised."

More importantly perhaps, when the British people last had its say on Europe in 1975, were they voting for the ever-closer political, as well as economic, union that has followed? Those that argue they were not, say that is precisely why a referendum is needed - to give the British people the opportunity to get out of a club they never chose to join.

“There exists substantial doubt whether we will be able to continue as a going concern,” it said in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. “There can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain additional financing on commercially reasonable terms or at all,” it said. The company’s share price crashed 45 percent in early trading in New York.

The Peabody group dates back 133 years and generated a tenth of America’s electric power as recently as five years ago. It is the first household name to succumb to the deepening coal crisis, which has already forced Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources into bankruptcy and wiped out the stock market capitalisation of the industry.

“In the wake of the revelations of mass surveillance the [US] president [Barack Obama] appointed two independent commissions to review the efficiency of these [surveillance] programs, what they really did and what effect they had in combating terrorism. [The commissions comprised] the highest priests of these programs, they found these programs had never stopped a single terrorist attack and never made a concrete difference in a terrorist investigation,” Snowden told Spanish TV channel.

The whistleblower went on saying, that “they [the NSA, CIA] violated the constitution and the rights of 330 million Americans for 10 years. We have to ask ourselves: was it ever worth it?” He also stated that despite being justified by preventing terrorist attacks, surveillance programs are more often used for completely different purposes.

“It was diplomatic manipulation, economic spying and social control. It was about power, and there is no doubt that mass surveillance increases the power of the government.”

Russia is a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his office said in a statement he had agreed to the move. The pullout was "in accordance with the situation on the ground", the statement said. Russia began its campaign of air strikes in Syria last September, tipping the balance in favour of the Syrian government and allowing it to recapture territory from rebels.

Mr Putin is effectively saying "job done" in Syria. He is clear, though, that a Russian air base and a naval base will remain, so this is not a total military pull-out. Coinciding with the Syria peace talks, it is yet another sign of Mr Putin's mastery of diplomatic showmanship.

"Five years ago, if you had asked me about bacteria in your gut playing an important role in your systemic immune response, I probably would have laughed it off," Daniel Chen, head of cancer immunotherapy research at Roche’s Genentech division, said in a phone interview. "Most of us immunologists now believe that there really is an important interaction there."

Two recent studies published in the journal Science have intrigued Chen and others who are developing medicines called immunotherapies that stimulate the body’s ability to fight tumors.

In November, University of Chicago researchers wrote that giving mice Bifidobacterium, which normally resides in the gastrointestinal tract, was as effective as an immunotherapy in controlling the growth of skin cancer. Combining the two practically eliminated tumor growth. In the second study, scientists in France found that some bacterial species activated a response to immunotherapy, which didn’t occur without the microbes.

That’s increased drugmakers’ interest in the human microbiome - the universe of roughly 100 trillion good and bad bacteria, fungi and viruses that live on and inside the body.

In other words, your tax dollars will be used to promote the so-called “benefits” of Monsanto’s GMOs — instead of promoting the devastating impact these vast commodity monocultures, and the toxic chemicals used to grow them, are having on your health, and the health of our entire ecosystem.

And this will all be done at the direction and insistence of the federal government.

If that’s not outrageous, I don’t know what is.

Prominent clerics, including a Church of England bishop, have lent their voices to calls for a reappraisal of the disciple who betrayed Jesus, leading to his crucifixion. The Rt Rev Nick Baines, the Bishop of Leeds, remarked that he feels “a bit sorry” for Judas. He said that the lost apostle, viewed by many Christians as a figure beyond redemption has, he said, had a “lousy press” for the last 2,000 years.

While Judas had long been reviled as “the ultimate traitor”, the truth behind Judas’s decision to hand Jesus over to the religious authorities may, he said, have been decidedly more complicated. One theory is that Judas was a dedicated revolutionary who saw Jesus as a reluctant political messiah and hoped that by handing him over for arrest he could trigger an uprising against Roman rule in Judea.