When the US military established a no-fly zone west of Los Angeles for a week, it raised the eyebrows of many. But nobody expected this. The unarmed Trident II missile that was fired from the USS Kentucky normally carries a nuclear warhead, and this launch was so visible that it could even be seen by people living in Arizona and Nevada…

Once the missile was launched, photographs and videos of this strange phenomenon were very quickly posted on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Others alerted law enforcement agencies and their local news stations. Clearly this was done at a time and in a location that would create a massive amount of attention. So what kind of message was the government trying to send?

Was this a message to the American people?

Some are suggesting this, but I tend to agree with Mike Adams of Natural News that this was likely a message to our enemies… Last night’s test launch of the Trident missile over Orange County was staged near a high population area for a tactical reason: To have as many witnesses (and videos) as possible, sending a very visible warning message to China that says, “We can destroy you if you don’t back off.”

The parents told employees of the Children’s Lighthouse Learning Center in Katy, situated west of Houston, to call their daughter by a masculine name and refer to her as a boy. Her haircut was also a masculine one. Among the two fired workers was Madeleine Kirksey, an author of a Christian book. She said the problem was more not with the transgender issue, but with explaining the need to refer to a little girl as a boy and calling her “John”, which she apparently was not, Breitbart reports.

The worker said she didn’t believe it “was our job” to drown out the issue of the so-called gender identity on small children, according to Breitbart. The school should force their beliefs neither upon their very young students, nor parents, nor employees, Kirksey added. “I don’t think we should be talking to other people’s children who are under the age of 18 about being transgender,” Kirksey said in an interview with Fox26 in Houston. This is the point both of the fired workers agreed on.

After being fired, Kirksey reported to Child Protective Services that the six-year-old girl was being told she is a boy, as she believes it is up to a specialist to determine whether the girl is confused or if the gender issue is being forced by her male parents.

The parents said okay, but told them they couldn’t go in the water, according to The Cape Cod Times. By the time a lifeguard spotted the children, they were — gasp — wet from the rain. What’s more, they were “standing around a food truck with no adults in charge.” Thankfully, the police were called before any of that wetness and unsupervised food trucking could escalate into something worse.

The cop decided to file reports of suspected abuse or neglect in both Massachusetts and New York. And, for good measure, she also “applied for criminal complaints against them in Orleans District Court.”

Think that’s insane? It gets worse:

“Washington State School District Bans Game of “Tag” to “Ensure Physical, Emotional Safety of Students”

“The “Nanny States of America” – Mother Arrested for Allowing 7-Year-Old Son Walk to Park Alone”

“11-Year-Old Boy Taken Away by CPS for Being Left in Backyard Alone for 90 Minutes; Parents Charged with Neglect”

“Maryland Parents Being Investigated for Neglect After Letting Their Kids Walk Home from Playground Alone”

“A Winter Wonderland of Fear – Cities Across the US Move to Ban Unregulated Sledding”

Meanwhile, still no bankers in jail.

Geologists studying the volcano, which is responsible for the most deadly eruption in US history, have discovered a second enormous magma chamber buried far beneath the surface. This giant pool of molten rock, which lies between seven to 25 miles (40km) below the surface, is connected to a slightly smaller chamber that lies directly beneath the mountain. The researchers also believe a second neighbouring volcano - Mount Adams - may also be fed from the deeper magma chamber.

They said a series of distinct earthquakes in the months leading up to the massive eruption on 18 May 1980, which killed 57 people, may have been caused by the pumping of magma from the lower to the upper chamber. This caused the pressure inside the upper chamber to increase dramatically until it erupted explosively.

It brought to mind that punishment has become a primary feature of American, indeed Western, society. A baker in Colorado was punished because he would not bake a wedding cake for a homosexual marriage. A county or state clerk was punished because she would not issue a marriage license for a homosexual marriage. University professors are punished because they criticize Israel’s inhumane treatment of Palestinians. Whistleblowers are punished — despite their protection under federal law — for revealing crimes of the US government. And children are punished for being children.

But not by their parents. Police can slam children around and seriously injure them. But parents must not lay a hand on a child. If a child gets spanked, as everyone in my generation was, in comes the Child Protective Services Gestapo. The child is seized, put into “protective custody,” and the parents are arrested. The CPS Gestapo receives a federal bonus for every child that they seize, and they want the money.

About all parents can do today is to restrict TV or video game playing time. Even this is dicey, because the kids are taught at school to report abusive behavior of parents. For many kids being told what to do by parents is abusive behavior. Kids have learned that they can pay back parents for disciplining them by reporting the parents to teachers or by themselves calling CPS. Kids who retaliate in this socially approved manner do not realize that they run a high risk of ruining the lives of their parents as well as their own by ending up in foster care where the risk of sexual abuse is present.

As society has made it possible for kids to prevail over parents, the kids think this right also applies to teachers, school administrators, and School Resource Officers, psychopaths with police badges who maintain discipline with force and violence. The kids quickly discover, as Shakara discovered in her encounter with Ben Fields, that whereas parents are constrained from using corporal punishment, School Resource Officers are not. Shakara’s desk was overturned as she sat in it. She was slammed onto the floor, dragged across the floor and handcuffed. Any parent who did that would be facing jail time.

The police violence extends beyond the schools. Any American unfortunate enough to have a police encounter risks being tasered, beaten, arrested, and even murdered. Protesters, war and otherwise, are beaten, tear gassed, arrested. The American police state is working hard to criminalize all criticism of itself. Violence has become the defining hallmark of the United States. It is even the basis of US foreign policy. In the 21st century millions of peoples have been killed and displaced by American violence against the world.

Furious Germans condemned Ms Merkel, waving German flags and chanting 'Merkel must go' and 'Traitor to the people'. Around 5,000 people turned out for the anti-migration march, organised by the eurosceptic, populist-nationalist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party under the banner 'Asylum has its limits - red card for Merkel'. 'We are demonstrating against the asylum chaos caused by Angela Merkel,' AfD member and European Parliament deputy Beatrix von Storch said at the rally.

Five counter-protests in support of migrants saw a turn-out of around 800 people, despite organisers' hopes that several thousand would attend. Activists protesting the anti-immigration protest found themselves targeted by police wielding pepper spray, as they attempted to break up the simultaneous demonstrations. More than 40 people were arrested and one officer was lightly wounded after the violence broke out.

Tommy Robinson, the 32-year-old founder of the far-right group, told protesters: 'Do not let Germany be dragged back to chaos and destruction. All of your progress is now threatened. Your current chancellor, Angela Merkel, seems to be handing out the birth right of German citizens like she is handing out candy to children.'

He continued: 'I encourage you people to refuse the shame game. Refuse to feel guilty. Germany is not obliged to save the refugee crisis. This current immigration is an invasion. Our borders are being overrun. There is little or no control. A country that cannot control its borders will soon not be a country.'

The list of demands runs 10 items long — the same as the US Constitution’s Bill of Rights — and also calls for an end to arrests and deportations for “all law-abiding undocumented Americans.”

The document was circulated by United We Stay, which is a group of illegal immigrants, first generation Americans and human rights activists pushing for changes to immigration law.

The 10 points include a demand that they be accorded respect; calls for citizenship rights and an immediate deferment of deportations; in-state tuition at public colleges; “wage equality”; medical care; and protection against deportation if illegal immigrants report a crime as a witness.

Syria now has renewed motivation to forcefully take the area back from Israel and is expected to contest Israel's claim to the oil. With Russia, Iran and possibly even China backing Syria, some fear things could get ugly, especially with the ongoing civil war taking place just across the border in Syria, where Russia has already established a military presence, reported Fox News.

Israel now faces the logistical, monetary and security challenges of protecting the future oil fields so close to the war zone, and the country is not likely to willingly relinquish control anytime soon. Israel currently consumes 270,000 barrels of oil a day and imports up to three quarters of its oil from the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, according to RT. The new discovery could make Israel energy-independent and, at the same time, provide a rich source of revenue.

And then there are the vital underground water sources in the area, which are Israel's main sources of fresh water.

Organized by the hacktivist group Anonymous, the event featured thousands of people from around the world donning Guy Fawkes masks and protesting a variety of injustices ranging from inequality and corruption to police brutality and capitalism itself. Protests spanned the globe, with major events taking place in Europe and the United States, as well as Canada and Guatemala.

As in the past, one of the biggest marches took place in London, where hundreds and potentially thousands of people flooded the streets. Although protesters were told to follow a specific route, some broke off from the main group and the scene quickly became chaotic. Roughly 50 people were arrested as a result. According to Sky News, arrests were primarily for public order violations. Three officers were also injured during the day’s events.

Dressing up their vandalism as compassion and their cowardice as moral superiority, these leaders have created an immigration crisis so profound that the very existence of our European culture and heritage is under mortal threat.

The tragic paradox of the obsession with free movement and the abolition of national identities is that Europe in any meaningful sense will probably cease to exist this century. As the social revolution accelerates traditional values of democracy, freedom and solidarity will be replaced by conflict, sectarianism, oppression and intolerance. Increasingly Islamified, barbaric and poverty-stricken, Europe will become indistinguishable from large swathes of North Africa and the Middle East.

The fraught scenes of chaos in Eastern Europe are replicated at points on the British border, such as Calais, where the vast 6,000-strong migrant camp descends into even greater squalor and tension. But 95 per cent of the squatters there are not refugees but are tough, fit young men mainly from Africa who have no right to be in Europe at all. If our politicians had any guts they would close down the camp and deport its freeloading residents.

But without any democratic mandate that is what the politicians have inflicted. One nurse in Germany, who is being evicted from her Nieheim flat so it can be used for migrants, told a reporter last month: “I find it impossible to understand how the city can treat me like this.” Her experience could be a metaphor for the peoples of Europe. The scale of this political treachery is almost incomprehensible.

The spectre of the 1930's Third Reich brown shirts looms large as far right protestors are openly conducting running battles in the street targeting refugees - as well as journalists and politicians who support their cause - in brutal attacks. Moderate politicians have been drowned out at rallies and one was even stabbed in the throat by a neo-Nazi madman, leading a top German magazine to declare: "The hate is back."

Security sources in Germany, which has taken in more migrants and refugees than any other European country, say they have seen a sharp rise in violence linked to right-wing extremism in recent weeks. It led respected German news magazine Der Spiegel to ask: "Does this threaten a relapse to the time of the Weimar Republic when violent political confrontations were commonplace?" The publication was referring to the political chaos which engulfed Germany in the aftermath of the First World War, eventually leading to the rise of fascism and Hitler.

While the reason for the selling is unknown, what we do know is that as of yesterday the total registered gold at the Comex had dropped to a fresh record low following another transfer of "registered" gold into "eligible."

This reduced overnight the total amount of eligible gold by a third to just over 151,000 ounces, or under 5 tons… And since the gold open interest continues to rise modestly… this means that as of today, the gold "coverage" ratio, or the amount of paper claims for every ounce of physical, has just hit a new all time high of 293 ounces of paper per ounce of registered physical.

Stocks fell and the dollar rose on Wednesday after Janet Yellen told a US congressional panel that a rate rise in December was a "live possibility", adding that the downside risks to the economy from abroad had diminished.

Ms Yellen said domestic spending was growing "at a solid pace", adding: “At this point, I see the US economy as performing well." Her comments echo a statement issued after the Fed's October interest rate meeting, when policymakers indicated that it could be "appropriate to raise [interest rates]" in December.