“The incident gave the media a chance to reinforce their place among the morally elect and gave the Obama administration a useful wedge issue to stir up the Florida base for the 2012 election. Ferguson served much the same purpose, truth be damned.”

Cashill, a WND columnist, believes demographic and electoral realities will force Democrats to continue to promote racial divisions. “The Democratic Party is unsustainable without 80 percent or more of the black vote. This plague of dishonestly stoked Ferguson-style rage is the Democrats’ problem. They cannot begin to solve it without alienating their base. So they won’t even try.”

China's fixed investment reached $5 trillion last year, matching the whole of Europe and North America combined. This is the root cause of chronic overcapacity worldwide, from shipping, to steel, chemicals and solar panels.

A Chinese devaluation would export yet more of this excess supply to the rest of us. It is one thing to do this when global trade is expanding: it amounts to beggar-thy-neighbour currency warfare to do so in a zero-sum world with no growth at all in shipping volumes this year. One dreads to think what would happen if we tip into a global downturn in these circumstances, with interest rates still at zero, quantitative easing played out, and aggregate debt levels 30 percentage points of GDP higher than in 2008.

"The world economy is sailing across the ocean without any lifeboats to use in case of emergency," said Stephen King from HSBC in a haunting report in May.

He dismissed arguments that enduring pain at the end of life is a “noble thing” and insisted that proper legal safeguards could be devised to ensure vulnerable people are not pressurised into ending their lives by greedy relatives. His remarks, ahead of a Commons vote on assisted dying, underline a growing rift with the official position of the Church he once led.

It came as one senior Church of England official condemned the attempts to change Britain’s euthanasia laws as “criminally naive”. The Rev Dr Brendan McCarthy, the Church’s national adviser on medical ethics, claimed that dying people would “most certainly” be put at risk by a change in the law. The row erupted ahead of a debate next month which amounts to the first ever serious attempt in the House of Commons to overturn the ban on assisted suicide.

The Office for National Statistics said that there was an 84,000 increase in the number of Britons in work in this country since 2014, compared with a rise of 250,000 other EU nationals. The figures also show that the number of EU-born migrants working in Britain has topped 2 million for the first time, with half of them hailing from Eastern European countries.

The influx means that there are now 4.9 million foreigners working in the UK, equivalent to one in six workers. In 1997 there were just 1.9 million foreign-born workers, equivalent to one in 13.

Rights activists who monitor the treatment of refugees say while they are seeing an increase in hate crimes across Europe, particularly targeting Roma or asylum-seekers from Europe’s poorest countries, nowhere have they seen mass demonstrations or attacks on housing for refugees like those in Germany.

“We’ve seen many bad news stories from Germany, but not that many from other countries — not in the sense of calling it a growing trend,” said Thorfinnur Omarsson, a spokesman for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles, based in Brussels. In the first half of this year alone, more than 179,000 people applied for asylum in Germany, a country of about 80 million. That is an increase of 132 percent over the same period in 2014, with Syrians the largest group, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees said.

In a report provided to Secrets by the Center for Immigration Studies, the total immigrant population surged 1.7 million since 2014. The growth was led in the last year by an additional 740,000 Mexican immigrants. The 42.1 million tabulated by Census in the second quarter represent over 13 percent of the US population, the biggest percentage in 105 years.

What's more, the numbers of immigrants coming and going from the US is actually higher since many return home every year, said the report. "For the immigrant population to increase by one million means that significantly more than one million new immigrants must enter the country because some immigrants already here return to their homeland each year and natural mortality totals 250,000 annually," said the Center.

The stunning growth is sure to pour fuel on the already white-hot immigration debate in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail. Many companies, meanwhile are taking advantage of the immigrants and replacing higher paid Americans with cheaper immigrant labor, even in skilled jobs. Polls, meanwhile, show that the public wants action to stop the surge of illegal immigrants and new foreign workers, an issue picked up by some of the Republicans running for president such as Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.

The yuan - also known as the renminbi - fell by 1.6 percent against the US dollar, dropping to a four-year low against the dollar. The currency’s depreciation followed a shock intervention by the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) on Tuesday, which devalued the yuan for the first time since 1994, amid signs that the world’s second biggest economy is facing a prolonged slowdown.

Ripples caused by the yuan’s devaluation have prompted central bankers in nearby economies to respond. Vietnam’s policymakers allowed the national currency - the dong - to trade in a wider range, adding flexibility that could insulate the country’s exporters from China’s moves, while Malaysia’s ringgit and Indonesia’s rupiah both fell to their lowest levels since the 1998 Asian financial crisis.

Economists warned that the yuan’s devaluation might mean Beijing is fighting off a growth slowdown far worse than official statistics reveal. China watchers have long treated official figures with scepticism, and the PBoC move suggested that the authorities may be alarmed by a truer picture of the economy, kept hidden from the public.

Lars Christensen, of Markets & Money Advisory, said that the sell-off could indicate that “the situation is much more dire than the official numbers are saying”. “Clearly the pressure on the renminbi will continue to build,” he said. Mr Christensen estimated that if China allowed the yuan to trade freely, it could fall by between 10 percent and 30 percent.

In Beijing, China’s reclusive powerbrokers were taking a decision that could have devastating consequences, for when the world’s financial markets opened yesterday, it was to the news that China had devalued its currency for the second successive day.

Having already cut the value of the yuan by almost 2 per cent on Tuesday, the People’s Bank of China announced yet another cut yesterday, sending shock waves through the world economy. ‘Investors should prepare for a tidal wave of deflation from Asia,’ said one analyst at the banking giant Societe Generale. ‘This is the start of something big, something ugly.’

She is using the current refugee crisis in Germany to arouse sympathy for the Bundeswehr’s interventions. However, with its aggressive foreign policy, Germany is actively helping create the causes for people to flee. A prime example is the Federal Republic of Germany's Afghan policy since the 1980s. Together with other western governments, Bonn had exacerbated the Afghan civil war with its support for the Mujahidin. Millions of Afghans had to flee the country and Afghanistan has never recovered from its political, economic, and social devastation.

The Bundeswehr's deployment in Afghanistan, which began in 2001 and whose main Mission was ended last year, has provoked a new wave of refugees.

Just who else might be deemed a serious threat to these values has been unclear, but last week a Conservative MP attempted to clarify the issue for a constituent who wrote to him, asking if it was true that EDOs could be used to silence people with traditional views about marriage. “No, no,” Mark Spencer replied: “I believe that everybody in society has a right to free speech and to express their views without fear of persecution. The EDOs will not serve to limit but rather to guarantee it: it is those who seek to stop other people expressing their beliefs who will be targeted.”

Taking the hypothetical case of a teacher who does not agree with the concept of same-sex marriage he reassured the letter writer that “teachers will still be completely free to express their understanding of the term ‘marriage’, and their moral opposition to its use in some situations, without breaking the new laws.” But then Spencer added: “The EDOs in this case would apply in situations where a teacher was specially teaching that gay marriage was wrong.”

In other words if a teacher goes beyond saying to a class, “Well, er, I don’t agree with it,” and tells them, “Marriage can only be between a man and a woman,” that teacher is an extremist and should be hauled before a judge to answer for it. This could well be the plight of a teacher in a Catholic school which, by definition, would be obliged to teach the Church’s doctrine on marriage if it was going to say anything on the subject at all.

The spending includes more than 100 publications, over 1,000 videos as well as cartoons, colouring books and other educational materials intended to promote EU values to children. Matthew Elliott, the chief executive of Business for Britain, said: "With UK taxpayers contributing more and more to the EU Budget, it is staggering that the European Institutions are throwing away our hard-earned money on propaganda promoting the European project.

"Indoctrinating children in classrooms and funding EU-friendly NGOs is a completely inappropriate use of taxpayers’ money when budgets are being cut at home. When Parliament debates the EU Referendum Bill in the autumn, it is vital that MPs prevent the EU from using its huge PR budget to brainwash voters and insidiously influence the result.” The report, which went through European budgets on a line-by-line basis, established that the EU spent £560 million directly on promotions and communications.

However, the figure is likely to be conservative as many promotional activities are included in larger budgets and not detailed separately.

The Animus River runs through the middle of a town called Durango, where the economy is largely reliant on tourism from the local rafting industry. They also rely on the Animus River for part of their drinking water and irrigation. Durango has been deeply impacted since the spill last Wednesday, when the river was declared a public health hazard and closed.

"Before you all get too exercised about the evil capitalist pigs that own the Gold King mine, if you wanted to serve a subpoena on them you'd have to dig them up first. The mine dates from the late 1800s. It was plugged decades ago but leaked into a nearby creek. EPA tried to insert pipes through the portal plug to drain the naturally occurring water from the old mine. They inadvertently caused the entire plug to collapse, releasing the water.

They had NO emergency backup plan, WORSE, they had no idea of the amount of water behind the headwall, or the composition of the water. Their incompetence has threatened numerous towns and cities downstream, closed down all recreation on the river, and potentially threatens drinking water supplies hundreds of miles downstream. Authorities this afternoon announced the waste contains arsenic, lead and cadmium, likely to kill off the fish and threaten other wildlife that depend upon the river.”