"When tolerance is demanded, when orthodox Christianity is deemed intolerant and when government and even society fails to extend tolerance to people of faith, we are headed down a perilous path," he said. His main point was that freedom of conscience has long been understood as important for religious freedom, but recently there has been a trend of violating the conscience protections of conservative Christians, particularly over the issues of abortion and marriage.

Citing a resolution passed by the Continental Congress to protect the conscience rights of pacifists, Wolf argued, "our conscience is not ultimately allegiant to the state, but to something, and for many people, Someone, higher." And this is important "because if our conscience belongs to the state, the state can choose to violate it or compromise it at will."

Recently, however, there has been a "subtle but insidious trend" in which the government is expanding into areas that are more likely to infringe upon conscience rights. This trend was "at the heart" of the recent Supreme Court case involving Hobby Lobby, a Christian-owned craft supply chain, and the Obama administration's birth control mandate. While the owners of Hobby Lobby, the Green family, are pro-life, the Obama administration sought to require them to pay for health insurance coverage for contraceptive pills that could cause an abortion.

Citing a Yuval Levin article, Wolf argued "we are witnessing the imposition of a new state religion" called "progressive liberalism." Wolf ended by quoting the Manhattan Declaration's implied promise of civil disobedience in the face of religious conscience violations: "I will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar's. But under no circumstances will I render to Caesar what is God's."

That labor is used for a variety of trades, including making uniforms for popular restaurants like McDonalds and Applebee’s. But if the private prisons don’t have enough inmates locked up then production goes down correlative with the decrease in free labor (ie slavery).

It comes as a surprise to many Americans, but slavery was never actually abolished in the United States. That’s not a metaphor, it’s a matter of careful reading of the 13th amendment to the Constitution. That amendment – often lauded for abolishing slavery – actually makes an exception for prisons. Slavery is still completely legal as “punishment for a crime.”

California guarantees that prisons will be filled to 70% capacity at all times. Arizona promises almost 100% occupancy. With crime dropping, the private prison industry is losing money and they are none too pleased. In order to avoid these lawsuits, judges will have to dish out extra-long maximum sentences – not because the defendant deserves it, but because the state wants to keep these contracts in good standing with the private prison industry.

The ruling came on Thursday from the 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals in a case brought by Captain Paul Fields, who had been ordered by Tulsa police officials to either go to a special event at the local mosque himself, or order others to do that. Fields refused based on religious freedom objections and was punished for that. The judges on the 10th Circuit panel said that was perfectly appropriate.

The police department executives had promised they would send officers to the mosque for Muslims to talk to them about the Quran, Muhammad and their other beliefs, but were unable to find volunteers. So they issued an order making attendance mandatory. Fields objected, telling officials, “Please consider this email my official notification to the Tulsa Police Department and the City of Tulsa that I intend not to follow this directive, nor require any of my subordinates to do so if they share similar religious convictions.”

Police officials immediately launched an internal affairs investigation which resulted in a two-week suspension for Fields, and a permanent demotion.

The AFLC noted that Fields just prior to the religious event, “was one of the primary officers involved with helping to protect this mosque from a criminal suspect intent on doing harm.” The Tulsa Islamic organization has featured speakers such as Imam Siraj Wahhaj, “a Shariah-adherent Muslim who promotes the destruction of Western civilization and the creation of an Islamic caliphate,” according to the lawsuit.

He added the euro's policymakers could no longer force "integration by crisis” - a mantra that has dictated the single currency project since its inception, but has never gained the support of its citizenry. "Since 2010, the integration of the euro area has progressed under the pressure of the crisis, with agreements often reached at the last minute.

"We all have in mind Jean Monnet’s remark that 'Europe will be forged in crises, and will be the sum of the solutions adopted for those crises'. But some of these solutions, improvised in a hurry, are not always long lasting."

However, the eurozone remained an "irreversible" project and should move from emergency solutions to providing permanent institutions to shore up its credibility, he added. The Frenchman suggested the bloc's emergency bail-out mechanism, the ESM, could form the blueprint for a "treasury of the euro area". "We need to use the confidence in the single currency to build institutions that will reinforce the cohesion of our economic and political union," said Mr Coeuré.

"Many observers have concluded that Pakistan's rate of fissile material production (and assumed construction of nuclear weapons) gives it the fastest-growing nuclear weapons stockpile," according to the report by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Stimson Center.

Its growth rate would make Pakistan's nuclear arsenal twice the size of neighbor India and larger than the United Kingdom's, China's and France's nuclear weapon stockpile in the next five to 10 years, according to the report. Estimates were used to gauge the nuclear proliferation within notoriously secretive India and Pakistan.

The report, authored by two US analysts, warns that Pakistan's nuclear arsenal growth "goes well beyond the assurances of credible minimal deterrence provided by Pakistani officials and analysts."

William Dudley said the recent market turmoil and questions over global growth had created more "downside risks" for the world's biggest economy. "From my perspective, at this moment, the decision to begin the normalisation process at the September meeting seems less compelling to me than it was a few weeks ago," Mr Dudley said during a press conference on Wednesday morning.

While Mr Dudley said he remained hopeful that the Fed would raise interest rates this year, he said tougher financial conditions meant rate hikes could be delayed for longer if the turmoil persists. However, Mr Dudley cautioned that it was "important not to react to short-term market developments". He said it remained unclear if the recent volatility reflected a "temporary adjustment or something more persistent for US growth and the inflation outlook".

He also said the gyrations in the stock market would have to be "persistent" to "impinge" on policymakers' outlook for global growth. Fed policymakers will meet on September 16 to discuss monetary policy. Analysts at Morgan Stanley said on Tuesday that waiting too long to raise rates risked sending "the wrong message to markets".

The multinational drug corporations behind the two vaccines, Merck & Co and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), respectively, say the vaccines are perfectly safe and come with minimal risk of side effects. But the many thousands of young girls throughout the world who've suffered serious side effects, including several hundred recently featured in a Danish documentary that aired on Denmark's TV2 network, claim otherwise, reporting major health failures almost immediately following the jab.

HPV vaccines have already been administered to some 70 million women worldwide, but their safety and effectiveness is questionable at best. The science used to justify their commercial approval simply doesn't stand up to scrutiny, and yet many countries throughout the world have adopted HPV vaccines as a preventative medicine for preventing cervical cancer.

Canadian researchers published a study in 2013 revealing that the industry-sponsored trials used to justify commercial approval of HPV vaccines are "largely inadequate" and present "evidence of selective reporting of results from clinical trials," meaning vaccine companies cherry-pick data to suit their own agenda.

The claim that HPV vaccination will result in approximately 70% reduction of cervical cancers is made despite the fact that the clinical trials data have not demonstrated to date that the vaccines have actually prevented a single case of cervical cancer (let alone cervical cancer death), nor that the current overly optimistic surrogate marker-based extrapolations are justified."

The reason for this was the Pope’s “realistic view that theological dialogue alone will not get us any further”. Friendly relationships were an essential condition for even beginning to discuss difficult theological questions, Koch said. The Pope wanted an evangelising Church that would take the gospel message out into the world and he “wants us [Christians] to do everything together that we can do together”.

Asked if ecumenism had the same high priority for Pope Francis as it had had for his predecessors, Koch replied, “Ecumenism has the highest priority for Pope Francis as it has had for all popes since the [Second Vatican] Council. Perhaps Pope Francis approaches it with a slightly different emphasis. He continually underlines that we cannot wait until we are one [Church]. We must work together now; we must walk along the same path, bear the same witness and pray together. Sisterliness and friendship between the different Christian Churches and church communities as well as bearing witness are very high priorities for Pope Francis.”

Asked to explain the way that “the emphases in ecumenical dialogue appeared to be shifting”, Koch replied: “Something is changing in so far as new doors for dialogue are being opened which have been closed up to now and that is most significant.” He went on to say that relations with Pentecostals were particularly important. This was particularly important as Pentecostalism has become the “second-largest reality in Christianity after the Catholic Church,” Koch said.

This week, while standing on our yeshiva’s rooftop in the Old City overlooking the Temple Mount above the Kotel, a few of us had the chance to watch and listen to a group of dozens of Muslim women, covered from head to toe in their religious garb, screaming and hurling epithets at a group of what appeared to be Western and Jewish tourists who were visiting the Temple Mount.

And what do all of these people seem to share in common? Hate. Pure, unabashed, unbridled and unmitigated hatred for others who are different, simply because they are different. Why do they hate us so much? Why is a country like Iran, with 10,000 people for every Jew, so dedicated to our annihilation? Why is Hamas’ charter dedicated to the eradication of Jews everywhere?

As a young soldier, I spent time in Lebanon. Such a beautiful country, it remains devastated and constantly on the verge of conflict, largely because Hezbollah cannot make peace with the fact that there is now a State with a Jewish majority on its borders. Hatred has blinded them to what life could be.

Historians and philosophers have debated what caused Germany and other countries to so dedicate themselves to the destruction of the Jews that they murdered close to seven million people including one-and-one-half million children. It’s what it’s always been: Plain old-fashioned hatred, which does not have to be logical.

In a pastoral message for the first World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation on 1 September Bishop Egan challenged his diocese, saying: “Everyone should acquire a renewed awareness of environmental and ecological issues.” Laudato Si’ made it clear that environmental concern was central to Church teaching, he went on.

The document, he added, is typical of Pope Francis’ style: “with frequent hyperbole and memorable turns of phrase.” He said that by placing Portsmouth Diocese on what he described as Environmental Alert, he hoped that Catholics would be moved to live “more simply and without wastefulness.”

He encouraged Catholics to disseminate this challenge to by featuring columns about the environment in parish or school newsletters, and by discussing it in parish activity groups – particularly those concerned with Justice and Peace - and RE lessons. He also suggested Catholics get involved with ecumenical and secular campaigns.

House Bill 1328 wasn’t drafted that way, but then a lobbyist representing law enforcement — tight with a booming drone industry — got his hands on it. The bill’s stated intent was to require police to obtain a search warrant from a judge in order to use a drone to search for criminal evidence. In fact, the original draft of Representative Rick Becker’s bill would have banned all weapons on police drones.

Then Bruce Burkett of the North Dakota Peace Officer’s Association was allowed by the state house committee to amend HB 1328 and limit the prohibition only to lethal weapons. “Less than lethal” weapons like rubber bullets, pepper spray, tear gas, sound cannons, and Tasers are therefore permitted on police drones. Becker, the bill’s Republican sponsor, said he had to live with it.

“This is one I’m not in full agreement with. I wish it was any weapon,” he said at a hearing in March. “In my opinion there should be a nice, red line: Drones should not be weaponized. Period.” Even “less than lethal” weapons can kill though. At least 39 people have been killed by police Tasers in 2015 so far, according to The Guardian. Bean bags, rubber bullets, and flying tear gas canisters have also maimed, if not killed, in the US and abroad.

Despite the revelations of the past several years, nothing has changed to push back against the American police state. Our freedoms — especially the Fourth Amendment — continue to be choked out by a prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat down, taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation. Despite the recent outrage and protests, nothing has changed to restore us to our rightful role as having dominion over our bodies, our lives and our property, especially when it comes to interactions with the government.

Forced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, forced inclusion in biometric databases — these are just a few ways in which Americans continue to be reminded that we have no control over what happens to our bodies during an encounter with government officials.

Thus far, the courts have done little to preserve our Fourth Amendment rights, let alone what shreds of bodily integrity remain to us. We have created a welfare state, a nanny state, a police state, a surveillance state, an electronic concentration camp — call it what you will, the meaning is the same: in our quest for less personal responsibility, a greater sense of security, and no burdensome obligations to each other or to future generations, we have created a society in which we have no true freedom.

Government surveillance, police abuse, SWAT team raids, economic instability, asset forfeiture schemes, pork barrel legislation, militarized police, drones, endless wars, private prisons, involuntary detentions, biometrics databases, free speech zones, etc… these are mile markers on the road to a fascist state where citizens are treated like cattle, to be branded and eventually led to the slaughterhouse.

Increasingly, things become those people’s private possession — even what was formerly a public asset becomes now private. Beaches become private. Schools become private. Natural resources become private. It’s not just the art that was stolen by the Nazis and privatized to them and/or shown at museums that they control, which becomes private; it’s whatever the elite want to have, and to control: it’s all now private. That’s the fascist ideal.

The legal system accommodates the legal owners, in any fascist nation, just as the legal system accommodates the legal owners in any nation at all. And, in fascism, the legal owners are the aristocracy, which are the people who have helped bring the system into being as it now is. Whereas any aristocracy is always at war against the public, there are also competitions within any aristocracy to determine which aristocrats will be the dominant ones. And, privatizations are now all the rage throughout the world, such as in today’s fascist United States, and today’s fascist United Kingdom.

This time, it’s called instead by such names as “libertarianism” or “neo-liberalism,” no longer “fascism,” so that only the true-believing fascists, the aristocrats, will even know that it’s actually fascism. It’s their Big Con. It’s their Big Lie. Just renaming fascism as “libertarianism” or “neo-liberalism,” has fooled the masses to think that it’s pro-democratic.

“Capitalism” has thus come to be re-defined to refer to only the aristocratically controlled form of capitalism: fascism. The ideological battle has thus apparently been won by a cheap terminological deceit. That’s all it takes for dictatorship to be able to win. Within recent decades, the international aristocracy, with America’s in the lead, has, in fact, set into motion a plan to privatize an emerging world government, so as to prevent it from being democratic: instead of socialist, this would be a fascist world government.