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."

Although this is barely sarcasm, there is almost no difference between the “cheese” and the wrapper, except one has been made to be able to swallow and the other, not. With all the recent exposure due to the recall, I understand that food manufacturing and processing involves risks and human error, so that is the least of the problem, or so I think.

The elephant in the room is this: what is it going to take for folks to stop relying on the most convenience in terms of what they put into their bodies? People still buy this fake food, en masse. With so many easy, still-convenient choices for real cheese at bargain or decent prices, why do people reach for the worst of the bunch?

It is because Kraft sliced “cheese,” individually wrapped, is what they know and what they are used to buying. To purchase anything else, for much of the masses, would require some original thought, a new choice, a step out of the comfort zone. Food choice should never be confined within a comfort zone because we live in times where technology, ingenuity, and entrepreneurial freedom are rapidly evolving and allowing all of us – rich, poor, and the middle class – to have more and better choices.

Folks have asked me, “Karen, how is Kraft not cheese?” To them, the ingredients look “normal” for cheese. But really? Look at the photo of the Kraft package (I dare not call it cheese) in the article. It clearly says “Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product.” It does not say “Cheese.” It is an industrial, processed cheese that does not “qualify” to be cheese because FDA regulations forbid this product to be called as such due to the too-low cheese content. Have you ever looked at the color of this product? Might that have been a hint?

As long as Big Food keeps selling convenience, individually wrapped and all, the medical-pharmaceutical complex is well-placed to keep people semi-comatose and alive until their 80s and beyond, with quality of life not ever being an issue.

The Obama economy has sent healthcare insurance prices skyrocketing, decimated our military preparedness through massive spending slashes, and with 50 million Americans now on the federal food stamp (SNAP) program we’re at a post-Depression era high. America now has record numbers of children living in poverty and Americans living at or beneath the poverty line. Obama has broadened the income inequality gap, and month-after-month the Obama economy breaks its OWN previous month’s record for workforce participation lows.

As is customary for this administration, news which may shine a less-than-positive light on the president’s performance is released on Fridays (which is to say that virtually all economic data is released by this administration on Fridays) so the news hits the headlines over the weekend while Americans are distracted, thus softening the lousy news’ impact. Friday August 7th, was no exception.

The BLS reported that 93,770,000 people (16 and older) were neither employed last month nor had made specific efforts to find work the prior four weeks. The number of people outside the workforce in July increased 144,000 over the previous record. That would beat June’s record of 93,626,000. June eclipsed the previous record. That would be May’s record when 93,194,000 were not in the workforce. Get the picture? Things are going in the wrong direction.

The number of Americans not in the workforce hit the high water mark of 90-million in July 2013 and has continued to rise ever since. With 50 million on food stamps, tens of millions more receiving other forms of means-tested welfare and record low numbers paying into the federal income tax system, the old adage of “more people riding in the cart than are pulling it” comes to mind.

I’m a little tired of pulling. But until we get more people paying attention to the substance than the flash, we have little chance of turning this nation around.

Rivlin welcomed the ambassador, who took up his post in July, and told him of his hopes in using Quarrey’s diplomatic experience for confidence-building measures in the region. “During your term here, we will celebrate the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, which perhaps marks the beginning of the diplomatic relations between Israel and Britain,” Rivlin told Quarrey referring to the November 1917 document in which the United Kingdom’s foreign secretary at the time, Arthur James Balfour, stated his government’s support for establishing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine.

Rivlin issued an informal invite for the British monarch to come to Israel. “I want to also convey my warmest regards to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and extend to her an invitation to visit our region,” he said.

Together with Henriquez, Quarrey took time to visit the Jerusalem Open House and meet with gay Israeli youths.

The ambassador, who has worked in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for two decades, previously served as the prime minister’s private secretary and was director for foreign policy at the National Security Secretariat. He has also served overseas at the UK Mission to the United Nations in New York, in India and in Zimbabwe.