“To confront climate change, we all have to embrace two ideas. They are simple and familiar ideas, but that does not make them any less true. First: We are all in this together. Second: The longest journey begins with a simple step.” – Bill Nye

On November 10, Bill Nye will release a new book titled “Unstoppable.” As only Bill Nye can, he uses the book to explain the science behind climate change, debunks popular myths, and asks readers to take action in their own lives to create a sustainable future. The book is shot through with optimism, but Nye has no illusions about what lies ahead. The message is simple: Climate change is real; humans are causing it; and we have no choice but to build a better and cleaner world.

“My goal is to change the world! Really, that’s what I’m trying to do. Obviously, this book isn’t going to change the world, but it is part of the bigger idea that we all have to think optimistically about this. We’ve got to go into this knowing we have a hard challenge but that we’re going to win this fight, and we’re going to save the earth for humanity.”

France’s top diplomat, who will preside over a year-end Paris summit tasked with inking a climate rescue pact, warned Sunday of looming planetary “catastrophe” if negotiations fail. “It is life on our planet itself which is at stake,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told journalists as ministers and climate envoys from 70 countries met for pre-summit talks to iron out tough political questions.

With the key UN conference just three weeks away, he also announced that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin would attend the November 30 opening. Russia, a major oil producer, is seen as a deal-maker or -breaker in the years-long attempt to negotiate the world’s first truly universal pact to curb climate-altering greenhouse gas emissions.

“There is absolute urgency,” said Fabius, to achieve the UN goal of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-Industrial Revolution levels. The UN’s climate science panel has warned of an average temperature rise of “four, five, six degrees, if we do not act extremely quickly,” he said.

The countdown to the United Nation’s Paris Climate summit is approaching and the public is once again being warned that this meeting will represent the “last chance” for nations to act on “global warming” before it’s allegedly too late. Media reports are touting “Paris is the last chance”.

We are also being told once again that the UN climate summit in Paris later this month, will be humanity’s “last chance” to “solve” global warming — or else. The United Nations Climate Change Conference is having its 21st meeting in Paris towards the end of 2015. (Hence COP21 or conference of parties). We’ve been told this is the ‘last effective opportunity’ to keep global warming to ‘a limit safe for humanity’.

Here is a sampling of previous “last chance” deadlines that turned out to be — well — not the “last chance” after all. We are reassured by the fact there have been previous last chances, and this website predicts that COP21 will not be the last ‘last chance’.

Last chance! – Bonn, 2001

Last chance! – Montreal, 2005

Last chance! – Bali, 2007

Last chance! – Poznan, Poland, 2008

Last chance! – Copenhagen, 2009

Last chance! – Cancun, 2010

Last chance! – Doha, 2012

They have been devised by Brussels bureaucrats who are hoping to achieve an effective 'migrant swap' by persuading African nations to take back unskilled workers who have smuggled their way into Europe. In return, EU nations would agree to relaxing conditions currently restricting skilled Africans from migrating to the continent to study and work.

The secret plot would also see Brussels provide cash incentives to African governments if they helped speed up the process of deporting illegal immigrants from Europe. But it was savaged by political opponents last night, who accused EU leaders of "sheer madness". UKIP leader Nigel Farage raged: "The EU's way to stop illegal mass migration from Africa is to make it legal. This is sheer madness."

"The European Union can break apart," he said in an interview with the German news agency DPA. "This can happen incredibly fast if the rule becomes to shut people out, both internally and externally, instead of maintaining solidarity." His comments refer to the decision made by some member states to implement stricter controls along their borders, thereby forcing other countries to take on more of the burden of the refugee crisis.

The politician said it was possible member states would start shutting down borders completely, thereby putting an end to the Schengen free-travel zone that has been one of the defining freedoms offered to citizens of the EU. "We have perhaps only a few months time (before this happens)," Asselborn warned. The EU is in a "very, very critical situation."

Strontium-90 mimics calcium. It ends up getting deposited in human bones, where the radiation wreaks havoc with bone marrow, causing bone cancers and blood cancers like Leukemia. The radiation in the fish is so terrible that wild-caught Alaskan Salmon, Pacific Herring and Canadian white fish are being found bloody, with cancerous tumors throughout their bodies.

Alaska salmon as well as all types of Pacific seafood (shrimp, clams, scallops, squid, etc) are being tainted with radioactive contamination. So are the people who consume them. What do you think happens to people who eat radiation-contaminated food? Worse, what happens to people who eat cancerous tumors without knowing what they are?

Welcome back to class, students! I am Mike Adams your criminology professor here at UNC-Wilmington. Before we get started with the course I need to address an issue that is causing problems here at UNCW and in higher education all across the country. I am talking about the growing minority of students who believe they have a right to be free from being offended.

If we don’t reverse this dangerous trend in our society there will soon be a majority of young people who will need to walk around in plastic bubble suits to protect them in the event that they come into contact with a dissenting viewpoint. That mentality is unworthy of an American. It’s hardly worthy of a Frenchman.

Let’s get something straight right now. You have no right to be unoffended. You have a right to be offended with regularity. It is the price you pay for living in a free society. If you don’t understand that you are confused and dangerously so. In part, I blame your high school teachers for failing to teach you basic civics before you got your diploma. Most of you went to the public high schools, which are a disaster. Don’t tell me that offended you. I went to a public high school.

Of course, your high school might not be the problem. It is entirely possible that the main reason why so many of you are confused about free speech is that piece of paper hanging on the wall right over there. Please turn your attention to that ridiculous document that is framed and hanging by the door.

In fact, take a few minutes to read it before you leave class today. It is our campus speech code. It specifically says that there is a requirement that everyone must only engage in discourse that is “respectful.” That assertion is as ludicrous as it is illegal. I plan to have that thing ripped down from every classroom on campus before I retire.

But sceptics and even alien investigators quickly slammed the event suggesting the picture in fact showed a mummified child in a museum exhibit. They were also suspicious as only copies of the original 1940s slide purporting to show the alien were shown at the conference which took place on the 20th anniversary of a previous 'Roswell hoax' when fake images alleging to show a secret US military autopsy on an alien corpse were released and later proved to be false.

Now one of the key players in investigating the so-called 'Roswell Slides' who put his name to them being genuine snaps of a dead alien, has been forced into a public apology. Tony Braglia, a world-leading UFO researcher, yesterday issued a statement saying it has been established the picture was of a Native American mummified child.

He said: "I must offer my sincerest and deepest apologies to the Native American people of the Southwestern United States. One of their children, a dead child from well over a century ago, was made a spectacle. Whoever you are, you deserve to be extended dignity and respect." It was a steep climbdown from comments he made before the unveiling when he insisted it came from outer space.

After all, China has been the kingpin player igniting this massive bear market plague that has spread throughout the world, all the way from Canada to Brazil. And contrary to popular myth, the US certainly has no immunity against China's rippling troubles. Come bull or bear market here, it's time to look at the storm brewing overseas… Indeed, China's pending market meltdown has been called “the scariest threat to stocks since 2009.”

CNN Money reports: "An economic slowdown in China is as large of a catalyst in investors' minds as anything we've seen going back to the financial crisis," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities. China matters so much because its explosive growth fueled the rest of the world. A huge appetite for goods and raw materials lifted economies in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australia and elsewhere. "If China gets a cold, the rest of Asia gets the flu," said Peter Kenny, chief market strategist at The Clear Pool Group, a financial technology firm.

Two major problems facing China today include China's slowing demand (especially when it comes to oil and gas) whilst they hammer away, developing infrastructure that doesn't seem urgently needed. Countless developing nations are co-dependent on China being a big customer for their resources: Brazil, the Philippines, South Africa, Chile, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Thailand, to name a few. Lately, that demand has nosedived. Hence, all this increased economic strife among China's usual resource sellers.

Activity in the country's factories has subsequently dropped at its fastest rate for at least three years in August, as domestic and export orders plummeted. What we do know for sure is that China's combined exports and imports fell a staggering 8.1% in the first nine months of the year from the same period in 2014, well below the full-year official target of 6% growth.

Additionally, even the IMF believes China's growth will slow down to 6.3% compared to the estimated 6.8% growth rate quoted to represent 2015. But chief global economist of Citigroup Willem Buiter isn't quite buying that either. In another pessimistic outlook, Buiter said, “We consider China to be at high and rapidly rising risk of a cyclical hard landing,” citing excess capacity and high debt loads.

The issue for all empires is how to pay for the cost of conquest and maintenance of empire, while keeping the population happy at home. Empires require enormous resources to fund a perpetual warfare/welfare state. For Rome, there were soldiers and fortifications to pay abroad and “bread and circuses” (panem et circenses) to fund at home. For Rome, the denarius was the currency used to pay for it all.

In the 20th century, the first world superpower since the Roman Empire emerged - the United States of America. The US was also a silver empire with billions of silver coins circulating among its citizens. US dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollars were minted of 89.24%-90% silver from 1794-1964.

In 1964 the US discontinued the issuance of silver certificates that allowed holders to redeem them for physical silver held at the U.S. Treasury. Silver was removed from newly minted US dimes, quarters and half dollars by an act of President Johnson the following year.

“If you end up adding to that $18.5 trillion the unfunded civilian and military pensions and retiree healthcare, the additional underfunding for Social Security, the additional underfunding for Medicare, various commitments and contingencies that the federal government has, the real number is about $65 trillion rather than $18 trillion, and it’s growing automatically absent reforms,” Walker told host John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on New York’s AM-970 in an interview airing Sunday.

The former comptroller general, who is in charge of ensuring federal spending is fiscally responsible, said a burgeoning national debt hampers the ability of government to carry out both domestic and foreign policy initiatives.

“If you don’t keep your economy strong, and that means to be able to generate more jobs and opportunities, you’re not going to be strong internationally with regard to foreign policy, you’re not going to be able to invest what you need to invest in national defense and homeland security, and ultimately you’re not going to be able to provide the kind of social safety net that we need in this country,” he said.

He said Americans have “lost touch with reality” when it comes to spending.

There was also an interruption to what is billed as a “continuous carrier presence” in the Asia-Pacific region after the USS George Washington left in July and its replacement did not get there until the fall. Earlier this week, senior Navy officials publicly acknowledged there will be more gaps next year. The basic problem is simple: The Navy only has 10 aircraft carriers, one short of what senior officers say is required.

"We require 11 aircraft carriers to meet our full range of military operational requirements,” the Navy’s Assistant Secretary for Research, Development and Acquisition, Sean Stackley, told the House Armed Services Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee on Wednesday. "Today we're at 10 — and we're at 10 that are highly stressed because they have been driven hard," Stackley said.

This shortage also comes at the same time US leaders are attempting to reassure Gulf Arab allies that they are willing and able to counter growing Iranian influence in the region. The day after the USS Theodore Roosevelt left the Persian Gulf on October 9, Iran fired off a ballistic missile in violation of international law.

In a recent interview on Fox News, Cruz was addressing Obama’s action — which he took in the weeks following the 2014 midterm elections in November — on the heels of a ruling by a federal judge in Texas ordering a temporary halt to President Obama’s executive action.

US District Judge Andrew Hanen, appointed to the federal bench by President George W Bush, issued his order February 16. It puts on hold Obama’s action to prevent up to 5 million people residing illegally in the country from being deported.

In his interview, Cruz said Obama’s administration was ignoring the law and the judge’s order:

“One of the things it points out is the president has claimed, rather absurdly, that the basis of his authority is ‘prosecutorial discretion.’ That he’s simply choosing not to prosecute 4.5 million people here illegally,” Cruz told Fox News, as quoted by The Associated Press.

“But what the district court concluded, quite rightly, is they’re doing far more than that. The administration is printing work authorizations. It is affirmatively acting in contravention of federal law. Basically, what it’s doing is counterfeiting immigration documents, because the work authorizations it's printing are directly contrary to the text of federal law. It is dangerous when the president ignores federal law.”

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.