The central bank watchdog said emerging market households and businesses reliant on cheap debt faced a credit crunch that could trigger panic in a world of evaporating liquidity and fewer market makers. It warned that the "potential for spillovers" to emerging markets from higher US interest rates was larger now than it was during the so-called "taper tantrum" in 2013.

BIS data show the stock of dollar denominated debt rose to $9.8 trillion (£6.5 trillion) in the second quarter of 2015, with dollar credit to borrowers in emerging markets doubling since 2009 to more than $3 trillion. Tighter US policy and a stronger dollar would highlight financial vulnerabilities among domestic and foreign currency borrowers, the BIS said. According to the watchdog, total non-financial corporate debt in emerging markets, including dollar borrowing, currently stands at $23.5 trillion.

Monsanto has acted with severe negligence, and the hubris and supremacy of a corporation given personhood, but no longer. The Organic Consumers Association (OCA), IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI), and Millions Against Monsanto, along with dozens of global food, farming, and environmental justice groups announced at the United Nations conference held recently in Paris that an international court of lawyers and judges will assess Monsanto’s criminal liability for their atrocious acts.

The court, in The Hague, Netherlands, will use the UN’s ‘Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights’ developed in 2011 to assess damages for Monsanto’s acts against human life and the environment. The court will also rely on the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court in The Hague in 2002, and it will consider whether to reform international criminal law to include crimes against the environment, or ecocide, as a prosecutable criminal offense.

Speaking at the press conference, Ronnie Cummins, international director of the OCA (US) and Via Organica (Mexico), and member of the RI Steering Committee, said: “The time is long overdue for a global citizens’ tribunal to put Monsanto on trial for crimes against humanity and the environment… Corporate agribusiness, industrial forestry, the garbage and sewage industry and agricultural biotechnology have literally killed the climate-stabilizing, carbon-sink capacity of the Earth’s living soil.” The proceedings will take place on World Food Day, October 16, 2016.

Prices are poised to test lows last seen at the depths of the financial crisis in early 2009. The shares of oil companies plummeted in London, and US shale drillers went into freefall on Wall Street. “Lots of people said OPEC was dead. OPEC itself has just confirmed it,” said Jamie Webster, head of HIS Energy.

Mr Bahree [of HIS Energy] compares the demise of OPEC with the fall of the Texas Railroad Commission, the once mighty giant that set output and controlled world prices through the middle years of the 20th century. The Commission still exists, a forgotten shadow of its former self. Today it issues local permits.

Lynch referred to a recent report that found the Transportation Security Administration, which is overseen by DHS, failed to stop 95 percent of those who attempted to bring restricted items past airport security. “We had staffers go into eight different airports to test the department of homeland security screening process at major airports.

They had a 95 percent failure rate,” Lynch said. “We had folks — this was a testing exercise, so we had folks going in there with guns on their ankles, and other weapons on their persons, and there was a 95 percent failure rate.” Lynch said he has “very low confidence” in DHS based on its many failures over the years.

Mr Gramegna said this created "exceptional circumstances" that meant governments had to prioritise security over fiscal discipline and the so-called Stability and Growth Pact that limits budget deficits to 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). "It's obvious that what happened in the last couple of months was unforeseen to a very large extent," he said in an interview with the Telegraph.

"Receiving refugees that are fleeing from war - you cannot put out a sign and say 'I have a Stability and Growth Pact' - so it is obvious that these are exceptional circumstances and exceptional expenses that are unforeseen and still difficult to forecast because you don't know how long the refugees will stay and how long the situation will last." Francois Hollande, the French president, described the co-ordinated terrorist attacks in Paris last month that killed 130 people as an "act of war".

Mr Hollande took the unprecedented step of invoking a solidarity clause in the EU treaty that requires countries to do all they can to help when a member is the "victim of armed aggression". "The security pact takes precedence over the stability pact. France is at war,” he told the French parliament.

“The response [to Palestinian stabbing and car-ramming attacks] must not be of the kind – and this is what I say in other situations where the response is such that it results in extrajudicial executions or is disproportionate in that the number of people killed on that side exceeds the original number of deaths many times over,” Wallstrom said on Friday addressing Swedish lawmakers.

This statement of the Swedish official caused a highly negative reaction in Israel. “I condemn the statements, the scandalous statements, made by the foreign minister of Sweden,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, as cited by Israel Hayom newspaper. "The [Swedish] foreign minister suggests that Israeli citizens simply give their necks to the murderers trying to stab them with knives. The citizens of Israel and its security forces have the right to defend themselves,” he added.

Netanyahu also claimed that everybody who commits a crime in Israel is brought in front of a judge. “The citizens of Israel have to deal with terrorism that receives support from irresponsible and false statements like that,” Netanyahu said.

The current wave of violence between Israelis and Palestinians erupted at the beginning of October when Israel tried to restrict access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem. Since then, at least 102 Palestinians have been killed, most of whom are said to have been perpetrators of attacks on Israelis, as well as 19 Israelis and an American student, according to Reuters.

The memo… detailed an 8 step plan to provoke Japan into attacking the United States. President Roosevelt, over the course of 1941, implemented all 8 of the recommendations contained in the McCollum memo. Following the eighth provocation, Japan attacked. The public was told that it was a complete surprise, an "intelligence failure", and America entered World War Two.

This memo, which proves that the government of the United States desired to lure Japan into an attack, was declassified in 1994. It took fifty years for the truth about Pearl Harbor to be revealed. Will we have to wait that long for the truth of 9-11 to come out?

We also know that active shooter drills actually took place near the crime scene just days before and possibly even on the same day of the mass shooting as reported by Mac Slavo. Additionally details from an eyewitness, who came forth on the day of the shooting, may have been overlooked by investigators and suggest that there were actually ‘three white shooters’ instead of the radicalized husband and wife natural-born killer team portrayed in some mainline reports.

The witness, Sally Abdelmageed, worked at Inland Medical Center where the attack took place and saw it all unfold firsthand. It’s also important to note that Abdelmageed is likely not lying and that this quite possibly might be the most accurate eyewitness account publicized to date. After all how can two shooters, a man and a petite woman, be mistaken for three white military men with athletic builds?

At one time, the term “terrorist” was used very narrowly. The government applied that label to people like Osama bin Laden and other Islamic jihadists. But now the Obama administration is removing all references to Islam from terror training materials, and instead the term “terrorist” is being applied to large groups of American citizens.

And if you are a “terrorist”, that means that you have no rights and the government can treat you just like it treats the terrorists that are being held at Guantanamo Bay.

So if you belong to a group of people that is now being referred to as “potential terrorists”, please don’t take it as a joke. The first step to persecuting any group of people is to demonize them. And right now large groups of peaceful, law-abiding citizens are being ruthlessly demonized.

Both the right-leaning daily "Le Figaro" and former communist paper "L'Humanite" led with "Le Choc" ("The Shock") on their respective Monday front pages. According to estimates by the French interior ministry, the National Front led the first round with 28 percent of the vote, while Nicolas Sarkozy's center-right alliance - now called The Republicans - claimed 27 percent. French President Francois Hollande's ruling Socialist Party and its allies came in third with 23.5 percent.

Le Pen's National Front took advantage of fears across the country by campaigning on an anti-immigration, anti-EU and often Islamophobic platform to garner support in the aftermath of deadly attacks in the nation's capital Paris. The far-right party's Twitter account shared comments made by party strategist Florian Philippot on Monday that were critical of the country's handling of the terrorist attacks as well as a wave of migration.

"We must stop subsidizing the reception of migrants, we must defend our local artisans," Philippot said to French satellite channel BFM TV. "We must defend the security of our transport and our schools, we must defend our local craftsmen and producers," Philippot said.

“Hezekiah trusted in the Lord, the God of Israel. There was no one like him among all the kings of Judah, either before him or after him. He held fast to the Lord and did not stop following him; he kept the commands the Lord had given Moses. And the Lord was with him; he was successful in whatever he undertook. He rebelled against the king of Assyria and did not serve him.”

According to Hebrew University, the inscription reads: “Belonging to Hezekiah [son of] Ahaz king of Judah.” It also bears a “two-winged sun, with wings turned downward, flanked by two ankh symbols symbolizing life.” As Reuters reports, excavators believe Hezekiah may have made the seal himself and that “the back side of the clay imprint of the seal had markings of thin cords that were used to tie a papyrus document.” The seal is said to be the first mark from an Israelite or Judean king ever found during a scientific excavation, which is noteworthy because it links the artifact to the location.

“It’s always a question, what are the real facts behind the biblical stories,” said Dr Eilat Mazar, who led the excavation. “Here we have a chance to get as close as possible to the person himself, to the king himself.”

Anonhq.com reports:

“The program costs millions of dollars, and is designed to derive “warfighter-relevant insights”. According to the Pentagon the purpose is for senior officials and decisions makers in “the defense policy community” to come up with contingency plans should widespread social unrest occur. The Minerva Initiative has existed as far back as 2008, and the operation began as the global financial crisis first struck. A full list of the studies being done can be found on the Minerva Initiative’s own website.

Known as the “Minerva Research Initiative”, the DOD had partnered with universities in 2008 in order “to improve DoD’s basic understanding of the social, cultural, behavioral, and political forces that shape regions of the world of strategic importance to the US.”

“Conspiracy Theorists” who believe that Jade Helm amounts to training for an eventual US-based scenario, who are skeptical of the sudden militarization of the police force, the spike in police murders as well as Homeland “Security’s” decision to purchase 1.6 billion extremely lethal hollow-point rounds (which are forbidden by international law for use in war), have just been vindicated by the actions of the US military itself. In the face of an ever-worsening wealth-gap between the richest and the poorest, it would defy logic for the government to NOT be preparing to protect itself from you.

Of course, it’s a conspiracy theory to ever question your betters, or to think critically of the same regime that murdered 500,000 to 1.3 million people in Iraq for fake nuclear WMDs…”

After seeing ships of the British fleet at Portsmouth and Plymouth when he was a boy, Kaiser Wilhelm II decided that he wanted to build such a fleet for Germany, and embarked on a "building spree [which] took Germany from the sixth largest navy in the world to number two," Miles writes in an article for Foreign Policy magazine.

"One hundred years later, China is rapidly and steadily building up its blue water fleet," and though times have changed, there are several similarities to take note of, particularly the rapidity of the improvement. Quoting a report by the Center for Naval Analysis, FP highlights that by 2020 China "will be the second most capable 'far seas' Navy in the world."

Building up its military will help to deter the prospect of conflict over Taiwan, writes Miles, as well as enable China to take part in international naval exercises and security missions around the globe. In contrast, the US navy has shrunk during the same period; after having almost 600 ships in 1989, George W Bush inherited 316 ships, but the Obama administration now has just 270, "the smallest navy since 1916."

The increase was also necessary "because from January a new labour law takes effect and round-the-clock service for basic operations will quite rightly no longer be permissible," he said. Wuestner added that the reduction in the Bundeswehr‘s numbers had gone too far in the past. "In the reform of 2011 nobody could foresee the crisis Ukraine or the fight against Islamic State," he said.

Politicians did not know then that there would be 20,000 troops needed in 2016, for military activities and similar duties such as dealing with the refugee crisis. "Now the Afghan mission will be extended and we will soon increase our involvement in northern Iraq and Mali," he said, adding that the upper limit for troop numbers must be increased and equipment improved.