“Most of the victims were slaughtered and most of the wounded [had suffered] machete cuts,” said Mustapha Karimbe, a civilian who has been helping the Nigerian military fight Boko Haram. The attacks on the three villages – Warwara, Mangari and Bura-Shika – happened on Saturday. All of the villages are located in the state of Borno, near Buratai, which is the hometown of Nigeria’s highest military.

The Nigeria-based Boko Haram terrorist group has killed more people than Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL), claiming 6,644 lives compared to 6,073 killed by IS, revealed the Global Terrorism Index recently published by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP). The Nigerian jihadists pledged allegiance to IS in March 2015.

This latest attack comes as Boko Haram fighters have intensified their attacks on Buratai and nearby settlements. Attackers usually come into a village and raid it. Last week Boko Haram brutally killed 14 people in the village of Kamuya, which is the hometown of the mother of Nigeria’s army chief and burned it down.

The United Nations agreement obliges nations to reduce greenhouse gases from 2020 onwards in an attempt to curb global warming. David Cameron heaped praise on the agreement, saying: “This global deal now means that the whole world has signed to play its part in halting climate change.”

But the UK will be forced back to the drawing board to revise its targets which are currently set on limiting global warming to a rise of 2C, after Energy Secretary Amber Rudd said Britain is “absolutely committed” to the deal. Experts have warned the UK’s commitment to the tougher targets will eradicate gas hobs and ovens and even gas-fired boilers - which are used by around 23 million British homes.

This information is followed by a new study which found that second cancers in Americans have increased a whopping 300 percent since the 1970s, all of which are a completely new type of cancer and not a reoccurrence of an old cancer.

The study also found that first cancers have spiked 70 percent over the last 45 years, highlighting the burgeoning profitability of an industry that shows no signs of slowing down as capital gains from cancer drugs reached the $100 billion mark last year.

Radiation, which may damage DNA, is believed to be responsible for 1.5 percent of cancer in the United States, and that's not just from cancer therapy treatments but also from other sources of radiological imaging such as mammograms and coronary artery and CT scans, the latter of which delivers 100 to 500 times the radiation of an ordinary X-ray.

The main reason for this is that the euro is merely a means to a much more coveted end — political union, as Germany’s Finance Minister glibly admitted in a 2011 interview with Welt am Sontag:

Schauble: “We decided to arrive at a political union via an economic and currency union. We had the hope – and we still have it today – that the Euro will gradually bring about political union. But we’re not there yet, and that’s one of the reasons why the markets are distrustful.”

Welt am Sontag: “So will the markets now force us into a political union?”

Schauble: “Most member states are not yet fully prepared to accept the necessary constraints on national sovereignty. But trust me, the problem can be solved.”

As Schauble promised, the constraints on national sovereignty in Europe have been severely tightened since 2011. European banking union became a reality last year, transferring supervisory authority over the banking systems of the euro zone’s 19 economies to the ECB, an institution with even less transparency and accountability than the European Commission.

Now the EU is planning to use a brand new crisis to expand its powers – Europe’s refugee crisis. As the Financial Times reported on Friday, Brussels is set to propose the creation of a standing European border force that could take control of the bloc’s external frontiers — even if a government objected. Even the pro-EU FT warily concedes, “the move would arguably represent the biggest transfer of sovereignty since the creation of the single currency.” After all, controlling one’s own borders is one of the core functions of a sovereign state.

At this critical juncture of European history, it bears remembering that the EU is not Europe and Europe is not the EU. The EU is a primarily a political project run by an unelected elite, with the so-called five presidents at the helm. As the British blogger John Ward eloquently notes, this elite routinely ignores the individual, ignores State sovereignty, ignores debt mountains, ignores currency realities, ignores poverty, ignores its responsibilities and above all, ignores every legal and constitutional obstacle in its way.

At the advent of each new crisis — often a crisis it itself created — it launches a new grab for power. Customs union, monetary union, banking union, defense union, digital union, energy union, fiscal union, political union… there is no limit to Brussels’ lust for power and control.

In the coming year or two, the people of Britain will have a once-in-a-generation chance to elude its grasp, to preserve its sovereignty. As a europhile British ex-pat who once firmly believed in the European dream but now sees it for the dystopian nightmare it has become, I urge them not to waste it.

America’s central bank is expected to start raising interest rates, in the first such move since the summer of 2006. The anticipated economic shift has been described as “momentous” and a hugely significant milestone of progress in the repairing of the US economy since the damage done by the Great Recession.

But for many City and financial services workers, it will mark an altogether new experience. Many now working on Wall Street were not even around for the last so-called “hiking cycle”. It is estimated that around a third of traders have seen nothing but near-zero interest rates during their careers. A large chunk were teenagers when the Fed last raised its rates.

The largest change since the crisis has been the growth of vast amounts of excess reserves – the amount of cash sloshing around banks – which has ballooned from a measly $2 billion before the crisis, to some $2.6 trillion today. The Fed is unlikely to lose control entirely, but how the process will unfold in these uncertain waters is an unknown. Several analysts have warned that the period following the first rate rise could be “turbulent”.

They are cleverly moving to develop a prominent role in what they see as emergence of the Chinese currency, the Renminbi (RMB), as a major global reserve currency. China for its part is taking cautious but firm steps to create that esteemed status for the Renminbi, something which could prepare the way for an exit of China and others from the dollar and from holding US Treasury debt.

Xi made a major visit to London at the end of October to meet not only Prime Minister Cameron but also Britain’s Queen. After his talks with Cameron, the Chinese President proclaimed that China and Britain will build a “global comprehensive strategic partnership” in the 21st century.

From Britain’s side it is a shrewd move by the financial institutions of the City of London to tie their financial future firmly with that of China as the Chinese Dragon moves to make the Renminbi one of the world’s major trade and reserve currencies. It is also bad news for dollar stakeholders as, clearly, Beijing will have little interest in supporting the debt-bloated dollar system in coming years.

There’s “absolutely no chance” Iran will delay its plan to increase shipments even as prices decline, said Amir Hossein Zamaninia, the nation’s deputy oil minister for international and commerce affairs. Oil slumped last week to levels last seen during the global financial crisis, while speculators increased bets on falling US crude prices to an all-time high after the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries effectively abandoned production limits.

The supply glut will persist at least until late 2016 as demand growth slows and Opec shows “renewed determination” to maximise output, according to the International Energy Agency. “Gloom nourishes gloom,” said Eugen Weinberg, head of commodities research at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt. “The market is fully acknowledging that Opec is no longer in price-control mode or providing a floor, and that the group is unlikely to change that strategy any time soon.”

Countries involved in the coalition aside from Saudi Arabia, include Jordan, the UAE, Pakistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Turkey, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Djibouti, Senegal, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Gabon, Guinea, the partially-recognized state of Palestine, the Islamic Federal Republic of the Comoros, Qatar, Cote d’Ivoire, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives, Mali, Malaysia, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Yemen.

“The countries here mentioned have decided on the formation of a military alliance led by Saudi Arabia to fight terrorism, with a joint operations centre based in Riyadh to coordinate and support military operations,” state news agency SPA quoted an official statement as saying.

The statement added that the coalition has “a duty to protect the Islamic nation from the evils of all terrorist groups and organizations whatever their sect and name which wreak death and corruption on earth and aim to terrorise the innocent,” Reuters quotes. The coalition’s headquarters will be based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital.

After I made a video in which I explained that executing gay people and stoning women to death was a bad thing, and that this may indicate Islam is not a very “peaceful” religion, someone on Facebook reported me to the police for committing a hate crime. “You do realize that spreading hate is illegal in the UK… I’ve reported your stupidity to facebook, the police, and several online hate crime organizations. Best of luck in the future ya tool,” wrote the individual.

That’s right, suggesting that people who leave the religion of Islam probably shouldn’t have their heads chopped off is now not just ‘offensive’ to leftists, it’s an opinion for which I deserve to be thrown in a cage.

But the United Kingdom is populated by people who will sign a petition in their hundreds of thousands to ban Donald Trump from entering the country for his thoughts on stemming Muslim immigration while saying nothing about Anjem Choudary, a radical Islamist who routinely appears on British television to express his support for terrorist attacks and the Islamic State, as well as his desire to see all homosexuals stoned to death.

The United Kingdom is run by a government which treats radio host Michael Savage as a security threat with zero justification while local councils across the country cover-up Muslim pedophile rings for fear of appearing ‘politically incorrect’.

This once again underscores the fact that so-called “progressives” aren’t progressive at all – they’re authoritarians who share many of the same beliefs as jihadists – who think that anyone who criticizes Islam should be silenced – by force if necessary.

However, in 2012, I read Dwyer’s testimony before the House of Delegates and I suddenly realized something that had eluded me, but thankfully, it has not eluded Delegate Dwyer.

Here it is in a nutshell:

“The reason why it is so desperately important to homosexuals to redefine marriage has little to do with “fairness” and much to do with gaining access to straight, normal, decent Maryland children from straight, normal, decent Maryland families.

You see, homosexuals can’t reproduce. So they must recruit.”

Listen carefully and think: Homosexuals can’t reproduce. So they must recruit. The best place to recruit is in schools where they can have unfettered access to children — your children and your grandchildren. Public schools are where the recruiting goes on and on and on. It is being made part of the curriculum.

In pre-kindergarten, your children are being taught that queer is ok and that it’s ok to try it. And if the legislature goes along and changes the legal definition of marriage, this tampering with the morals of your children will erupt in full force. Stripped of all its phony “fairness” language, what is being pushed is nothing short of government-authorized perversion of Maryland children. It’s a license for child abuse.

The Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy office at the University of Maryland has displayed posters on campus that are part of their “inclusive language campaign.” The poster lists “offensive” terms, followed by their politically correct counterparts, one of which reads “Would you say [illegal aliens] if you knew I am an undocumented citizen?”

Other statements on the poster are critical of those who would say “retarded” in front of the disabled, “ghetto” in the presence of the poor, or “raped” within earshot of someone who has been sexually assaulted.

This is the inevitable endpoint of politically correct language. Some of us are so sensitive that we can no longer use words that make sense. There is no such thing as an undocumented citizen. Someone who is not documented, is by definition, not a citizen.