"For years everyone has been advised to cut out fats,” said study lead author Doctor Russell de Souza, an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, at McMaster University in Canada. "Trans fats have no health benefits and pose a significant risk for heart disease, but the case for saturated fat is less clear.

"That said, we aren't advocating an increase of the allowance for saturated fats in dietary guidelines, as we don't see evidence that higher limits would be specifically beneficial to health." Saturated fats come mainly from animal products, such as butter, cows' milk, meat, salmon and egg yolks, and some plant products such as chocolate and palm oils. In contrast trans unsaturated fats or trans fats - are mainly produced industrially from plant oils for use in margarine, snack foods and packaged baked goods.

However the new research which looked at 50 studies involving more than one million people found there was no evidence that saturated fat was bad for health. It backs up recent research from the University of Cambridge that found saturated fat in dairy foods might protect against diabetes.

When the story appears in the Washington Post, guess who gets more copy – more precedence, higher priority. The anti-Semitic harangues of Muslim women against Jews? Or the counter-affront to Muslims by the Jewish mother? The answer is easy for readers of the Post and its coverage of Israel. The incident atop Temple Mount is woven by Jerusalem bureau chief William Booth into an Israel-bashing dispatch – the latest Booth piece to slam Israel (“Israel’s new, young Jewish extremists – A 20-year-old mom is known for provocations in bid to remake nation,” page A6).

What happened on the sacred soil of Temple Mount is utterly reprehensible on both sides – whether it’s shouting “Death to Jews” or blackening the prophet Muhammad as a pig. But Booth doesn’t treat it as such. His interest is almost entirely to blow up a Jew maligning Muhammad as symbolic of rising Jewish extremism in the Holy Land.

From a journalistic standpoint, it’s perfectly defensible to highlight Israeli stains. But where is the coverage of unrelenting Palestinian corruption, incitement, and misrule in Gaza and/or in the West Bank? That’s the real journalistic flaw in the Post’s coverage. It’s what’s glaringly missing – whether it’s Hamas torturing Fatah members in Gaza or Mahmoud Abbas countering in kind against Hamas activists in the West Bank. And both of them trotting out the vilest narratives against Jews.

Half a page devoted to “Jewish extremists” – but kid-glove treatment of the Palestinian side. Objective journalism calls for coverage of all sides through the same penetrating lens – an objective sadly lacking in the pages of the Post and the dispatches of Jerusalem correspondent William Booth.

In a letter to Mr Ryde, the BBC confirmed that after considering his points, it had added a line stating that the riot “occurred on the Jewish fast day of Tisha B'Av, which commemorates the destruction of the Biblical Jewish Temples on the compound, and which traditionally draws larger numbers of Jewish worshipers to the site.”

Mr Ryde said he was glad that the article had been altered, but that the corporation’s response “wasn’t stunning”. “They phrased it as Jews just happening to meet up in that area, making it seem like an aggressive operation rather than just Jews going there to pray,” he said.

If the change had not been made, Mr Ryde believed “it would’ve appeared that the police just went on to the Temple Mount for no reason. From this point of view it was done in defence of people who had a right to be up there.”

Speaking to TheBlaze using smartphone messenger application Kik, a representative for the Islamic State Hacking Division said the group is constantly spying on US servicemen. The organization on Tuesday published personal information purporting to belong to US military and government online. “Just like they spy on Muslims, we are spying on them, watching their employees, watching their soldiers, recording their movements and taking their location information and passing it on to the soldiers of the Islamic state,” the anonymous male member told TheBlaze.

“The brothers don’t need to attack them in military bases or secured buildings,” the hacking group member added. “they can now turn up in their houses. In their homes. this is war, what did you expect? u think u can bomb the Islamic state and we don’t do nothing back? soon, very soon you will see.” When asked exactly what could be expected to be seen “soon,” the member replied, “you will see when US military and government personnel start getting beheaded in their homes.”

Let me be clear on this: Once ruling hierarchies get beyond a certain point, they cannot be reformed. And I am sure that the modern West is beyond that point.

• Do we really believe that central bankers will just lay down their monopolies?

• Can we seriously expect a hundred trillion dollars of debt to be liquidated without any consequences?

• Do we actually believe that politicians will walk away from their power and apologize for abusing us?

• Do we really think that the corporations who own Congress will just give up the game that is enriching them?

• Does anyone seriously believe that the NSA is going to say, “... that Fourth Amendment really is kind of clear, and everything we do violates it… so, everyone here is fired and the last person out will please turn off the lights”?

• And does anyone believe that the military-industrial complex will stop encouraging war, or that corporate media will stop worshiping the state, or that your local sheriff will apologize for training his cops to be vicious beasts?

• Do we really believe that public school systems will ever stop lauding the state that pays all its bills?

I could go on, but I think my point is made: This system will never allow itself to be seriously reformed. Trying to fix this is like trying to revive a long-dead corpse. The systems that rule the West will fail.

Fast forward to the morning of August 11 when in a virtually identical stunner, the PBOC itself admitted defeat in the currency battle, only unlike the SNB, the Chinese central bank had struggled to keep the Yuan propped up, at the cost of nearly $1 billion in daily foreign reserve outflows, which as this website noted first months ago, also included the dumping of a record amount of US government treasurys.

And with global trade crashing, Chinese exports tumbling, and China having nothing to show for its USD peg besides a propped and manipulated stock "market" which has become the laughing stock around the globe, at the cost of even more reserve outflows, it no longer made any sense for China to avoid the currency wars and so, first thing this morning China admitted that, as Market News summarized, the "PBOC lost Battle Over Yuan."

That's only part of the story though, because as MNI also adds, the real, global currency war is only just starting.

In a new tactic, online recruiters are encouraging those at home to form jihadist gangs and start the long-term process of creating a British Islamic State. An investigation by Sky News revealed that there are as many as seven British people who have been recruited online by IS to carry out lone wolf attacks.

Last Sunday it was reported that British jihadis had planned to target the Queen by exploding a bomb in central London during events to mark the 70th anniversary of VJ Day. The Metropolitan Police has encouraged people to continue with their plans to attend celebrations.

Senate Bill 792, also known as the “Day care facilities: immunizations: exemptions” act, was presented quietly alongside SB 277, which eliminates personal, philosophical and religious vaccine exemptions for children who attend both private and public schools in the Golden State.

This bill, commencing September 1, 2016, would prohibit a day care center or a family day care home from employing any person who has not been immunized against influenza, pertussis, and measles. If passed, SB 792 would represent the first adult vaccine mandate in the US that disallows exemptions for personal reasons, and that threatens criminal penalties for those who fail or refuse to comply.

An affront to both medical and religious liberty, SB 792 appears to be the wave of the future in New America, where the perceived health of the “herd” is now more important than the health of the individual. Never before in the history of the United States have legislators pushed this hard to literally force vaccine injections on the public under duress.

The Israel Defense Forces has confirmed that “not a small number” of terror tunnels have been dug by Hamas under the border into Israel, including one in the area of the Kerem Shalom border crossing, Israel’s Channel 10 reported.

According to the report, Israel has “information” on the tunnels, and has troops “working around the clock” to grapple with the threat. However, Israel “prefers to wait” rather than send troops into the Hamas-held Gaza Strip to tackle the tunnel network there, because it knows that if it does so, it will trigger a new war.

Iran’s assistance in the new Hamas war effort includes cash, military training for Hamas fighters, weaponry, and electronics equipment including for use against Israeli drones, the report said. Hamas has also been training fighters in the use of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles, and is training recruits to fly paragliders across the border.

Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors at Harvard not to teach rape law — or, in one case, even use the word violate (as in “that violates the law”) lest it cause students distress. In February, Laura Kipnis, a professor at Northwestern University, wrote an essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education describing a new campus politic of sexual paranoia — and was then subjected to a long investigation after students who were offended by the article and by a tweet she’d sent filed Title IX complaints against her.

In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. “I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,” the headline said. A number of popular comedians, including Chris Rock, have stopped performing on college campuses. Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can’t take a joke.

The ultimate aim, it seems, is to turn campuses into “safe spaces” where young adults are shielded from words and ideas that make some uncomfortable. And more than the last, this movement seeks to punish anyone who interferes with that aim, even accidentally. You might call this impulse vindictive protectiveness. It is creating a culture in which everyone must think twice before speaking up, lest they face charges of insensitivity, aggression, or worse.

Thomas Jefferson, upon founding the University of Virginia, said: “This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.”

We believe that this is still — and will always be — the best attitude for American universities. Faculty, administrators, students, and the federal government all have a role to play in restoring universities to their historic mission.

Dubbed by the media as right-wing vigilantes, they belong to a controversial group called the "Oath Keepers" which has pledged to "defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic". Founded in 2009, the Oath Keepers group says it is reaching out to both current and former military, police, and first responders "to teach them more about the Constitution they swore to defend, and to inspire them to defend it".

It describes itself as a non-partisan association, telling members not to obey "unconstitutional orders". These, its website says, include orders to disarm the American people, to conduct warrantless searches, or to detain Americans as "enemy combatants" in violation of their ancient right to jury trial. It was set up by Stewart Rhodes, a Yale law school graduate, former US army paratrooper and staunch defender of the US Constitution - particularly the second amendment, the right for people to keep and bear arms.

John Karriman, the head of the Missouri branch of Oath Keepers, told the BBC they went to Ferguson "because the government promised to guard our people and they didn't". Police in St Louis, he argues, violated state law in Missouri that prevents any government agency from confiscating guns from citizens in times of emergency.

The group's leaders deny accusations it is a militia, anti-governmental or racist. In an interview with Reason magazine in 2011, founder Stewart Rhodes rejected the far right characterisation of his group by such organisations and the media. "I'm a quarter Mexican. I'm part Apache Indian. I'm hardly a poster child for white supremacy."