A former Polish prime minister and a politician not prone to hyperbole, Tusk’s comments revealed Brussels’ fears of a bubbling rebellion across the continent. “When impatience becomes not an individual but a social experience of feeling, this is the introduction for revolutions” said Tusk. “I am really afraid of this ideological or political contagion.” His unease reflects a widespread conviction that Europe’s elites had no choice but to make an example out of Greece.

Alexis Tsipras was forced to submit to a deal that punished his government’s insolence, so the argument goes, and destroy the fantasy that a “new eurozone” could be forged for the economies of the southern Mediterranean. Having emerged from the talks, Tusk declared victory, dismissing the “radical leftist illusion that you can build some alternative to this traditional European vision of the economy.”

But the shadow of 1968 - a year when Europe was gripped by mass discontent, student rebellions, and labour strikes - looms over Europe’s institutions. Over the course of the next 10 months, the entire complexion of the European south could be transformed. General elections in Portugal, Spain and Ireland are poised to bring anti-austerity, Left leaning parties to power.

It is the wildfire of political contagion that spooks Europe’s federalists. Greece's humiliation, rather than cowing the revolutionary Left, is set to embolden the southern calls for mass debt relief and cease the enforcement of the euro's contractionary dogma.

Most of the soldiers were only required to acknowledge the call, but thousands will have to don their uniforms and show up at enlistment points, to rehearse emergency scenarios. A senior officer said that the Air Force will be rehearsing for the neutralization of various attacks and that the Navy will train for protecting national infrastructures, among other things.

The officer added that this will be the first time in which the IDF rehearses cyber-defense on such a large scale. The exercise will continue until Wednesday, and an unusually high volume of security vehicle traffic will be noticeable on Israel's roads. Also on Monday, the Home Front Command will be holding rescue drills at sites simulating wartime destruction in Holon and Neurim.

Israeli police said that the masked Palestinian youths had stockpiled rocks, wooden planks, fireworks and Molotov cocktails inside the Al Aqsa mosque – which is on the Temple Mount compound – to use later against Jews visiting the site on their holiday and worshipping at the adjacent Western Wall.

“In light of the severe confrontation and the escalating actions of the rioters and with the aim of preventing further injury to police … [the] force entered a number of meters inside and closed the doors to the mosque with the rioters inside, restoring order,” the police said in a statement quoted by the Times of Israel.

“Such acts of hatred cannot be tolerated and we will not allow any disturbances to prevent Jews from praying at this holy site,” Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said.

The Temple Institute has released a modern three-dimensional architectural rendition of the future Third Holy Temple, utilizing the latest building material and techniques.

Rabbi Chaim Richman, International Director of The Temple Institute noted that one of his organization's key aims is to educate Jews about the centrality of the Temple to Judaism, after nearly 2,000 years without it.

"One third of all Torah commandments pertain to the building of and service in the Holy Temple," Rabbi Richman noted. "Today, we not only mourn the destruction of the two Holy Temples, but also our inability to fulfill one third of the Torah. Over the last three decades, the Temple Institute has done everything in our power to research and prepare for the Third Temple."

"As world Jewry sits on the ground mourning the first two Temples, we have taken a huge leap towards the rebuilding, by releasing a 3D architectural rendition of the Third Temple." The Temple Institute is the center of research and preparation for the Holy Temple. In addition to educational activity focused on the centrality of the Temple Mount and Holy Temple, the Institute have also recreated over 70 sacred vessels for use in the Third Holy Temple, which can be seen at their Visitors Center in the Old City of Jerusalem.

In many parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia, believers are being relentlessly attacked by extremists, churches are being destroyed, and laws are being passed to try to prevent the spread of the Christian faith. In some areas, the violence has become so extreme that Christians knowingly risk their own lives just to go to church services each week. Would you risk your life to go to church?

In North America and Europe, the persecution is often more subtle. Even though violent attacks are still fairly rare, Christian beliefs are being undermined by new laws, comedians and television shows regularly mock the Christian faith, and many employers will immediately mentally disqualify a potential candidate for a job if they discover that an individual is a Bible-believing Christian. Sadly, this is just the beginning.

In the years ahead, those that choose to be followers of Jesus Christ will face even greater persecution than we have seen already.

Officials from the city of Coeur d’Alene also acknowledged that ministers who refuse to perform same-sex weddings could be subject to jail time. The admission came in the case of Donald and Evelyn Knapp, a couple who runs The Hitching Post, a wedding chapel in the Idaho city. The couple claimed the ordinance violates their First Amendment right to freedom of religion.

The case has already gotten the attention of Idaho politicians. State Senator Steve Vick says he was so disturbed by the case he was considering getting the state government out of marriage, according to WND. “It’s very disappointing to me that they would require a Christian business owner to do something that violates their religious convictions, which I believe are protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution,” Vick said.

Major indexes suffered their largest one-day drop since 2007, shattering a period of relative calm in China's volatile stock markets since Beijing unleashed a barrage of support measures to arrest a slump that began in mid-June. While the falls followed lackluster data on profit at Chinese industrial firms on Monday and a disappointing private factory sector survey on Friday, there was little to explain the scale of the sell-off.

Some analysts said fears that China may hold off from further loosening of monetary policy had contributed to souring investor sentiment. In late June and early July, Chinese authorities cut interest rates, suspended initial public offerings, relaxed margin-lending and collateral rules and enlisted brokerages to buy stocks, backed by central bank cash, to support share prices.

The battery of stabilization measures followed a peak-to-trough slump of more than 30 percent in China's benchmark indexes, which had more than doubled over the preceding year. Chinese share markets had recovered around 15 percent since then, before Monday's renewed sell-off.

Flash-forward 30 years, as Culture Club embarks on a much-hyped reunion tour, and the world has drastically changed. As George points out, now “Sam Smith can say, 'I’m gay,’ and no one goes on about it,” and Caitlyn Jenner has been enthusiastically embraced by the media and public at large. George is humble, but acknowledges that he and Culture Club helped pave the way.

"And in a funny sort of way, it’s the world that I wanted to be in. It’s that world I was fighting for in 1984. That was what I wanted. I wanted people not to care about whether you were gay, straight, black, white, transgender, whatever it may be… That being said, there’s more work to be done… I still want to change the world, absolutely. And I feel like what we did back then was part of that.”

JPMorgan’s share price hit an all-time closing high of $70.08 yesterday. The scary thing is, JPMorgan’s stock had a run from $32 to $42 just one month before Lehman Brothers blew up in 2008, marking the beginning of the biggest financial crash since the Great Depression; and there had been a year of financial warnings prior to that. (So much for global bank share prices being a bellwether on global financial stability.) Once the 2008 crash was clearly underway, JPMorgan shareholders saw 70 percent of their share price evaporate in a six-month stretch ending in March 2009.

JPMorgan is not some folksy community bank in New England with no counterparty exposure to other global banks or debt-ridden corporations. JPMorgan Chase is a global bank with over $2 trillion in assets “serving corporations and individuals in over 100 countries,” according to its web site. In February, the US Treasury’s Office of Financial Research released a report showing staggering levels of interconnected risk among global banks. JPMorgan Chase had the highest overall score for systemic and interconnected risk.

SEC Commissioner Michael Piwowar on the issue of ETFs said:

“The growth of bond mutual funds and exchange-traded funds in recent years means that these funds now hold a much higher fraction of the available stock of relatively less liquid assets than they did before the financial crisis… their growth heightens the potential for a forced sale in the underlying markets if some event were to trigger large volumes of redemptions.”

We may be closer to that trigger than many investors realize. Bloomberg Business is reporting this morning that “SandRidge Energy Inc bonds have lost almost 30 percent since June, while notes of miner Cliffs Natural Resources Inc are down more than 27 percent.” The article also notes that bonds of distressed debt issuers “are on pace to lose more than 20 percent for the second straight year, the worst performance since 2008.”

Representatives of the much-hated Troika - made up of the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - arrived in the Greek capital on Friday but have been unable to find a venue, triggering security fears. "There are some logistical issues to solve, notably security-wise," said a European Commission official. "Several options are on the table."

Meanwhile, the Greek Finance Ministry has amended the capital controls enforced on the country. Greeks travelling abroad are now allowed to take €2,000 each, while shipping countries can withdraw €50,000 a day.

The return of the vilified external monitors represents one of the biggest climbdowns for the Syriza government. Leftist prime minister Alexis Tsipras campaigned ferociously to keep the Troika out of the country after five years of gruelling austerity. Bail-out officials were forced to leave the country when Syriza were elected six months ago.

Their presence on the streets of Greece has triggered public anger and attacks. Former IMF mission chief in Greece and now head of the Fund's European department Poul Thomsen can only travel to the country with a police guard. In 2013, Mr Thomsen suffered an attack on his vehicle when it was rocked by sacked public sector cleaners.

"Now is not the time to come out waving photos of bullet holes in the glass calling for more gun control and spinning the story to yield a further separation of peoples in the Unites States," he added. "Now is the time for a call on the American people to finally realize the state of the world we are living in and the enemy that we face. Now is the time to call on the American people to ignore the propaganda that special interest groups have been shoving in our faces and unite as a country so that we may become our neighbor's keeper."

Meyer not only wanted people to understand that evil exists in the Middle East in the form of Islam, but also in our home country. "Evil is not just overseas, but also here at home," he wrote. "Moments after this tragedy had occurred ISIS sent out via Twitter that they were responsible for the attacks and that the shooter, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez was one of theirs. ISIS said recently that they were coming to American soil to kill members of the United States Military and now that threat has come to fruition."

In an article subtitled, “I’m a feminist. I’m a dude. And I hate that I love to grill,” Brogan writes how he’s, “uncomfortable with the pleasure I take in something so conventionally masculine. At such moments, I get the sense that I’ve fallen into a societal trap, one that reaffirms gender roles I’ve spent years trying to undo. The whole business feels retrograde, a relic of some earlier, less inclusive era.”

Brogan worries that he is, “shoving others out of the way because it makes me feel like a man,” and that BBQs reinforce, “the stain of unintentional masculine cliché,” while TV commercials that depict only men behind the grill allow guys to, “confirm their masculinity by excluding women.”

As far as I can tell, this is not an elaborate joke. Brogan actually thinks that men grilling food is inherently misogynistic. He continues, arguing that “the masculine connotations of grilling are culturally specific, and hence culturally constructed” and that this, along with “aggressive bro culture” and “lack of child care support,” has led to fewer head chef roles for women in professional kitchens.

Earlier this week, we highlighted the inane blatherings of another male feminist – Michael Sonmore – who wrote about how he allows his wife, with whom he has children aged 3 and 6, to sleep with as many men as she likes, because insisting upon monogamy is “patriarchal oppression”.

Defence chiefs fear they could launch a multi-drone attack carrying several bombs, even using airborne cameras to film the bloody carnage below for twisted propaganda videos. Senior MI5 figures believed that Isis has already tested how much plastic explosive the flying machines can carry, getting as far as experimenting with detonation devices.

A counter-terrorism source said: "Islamist plotters have been trying to launch a drone-borne bomb attack for some time, as these machines are getting more hi-tech every year. "They want the spectacular devastation of such a raid, which would cause murder and maiming in a crowd, while filming it for a sick video. Isis is obsessed with re-creating the horror of 9/11 and believes this may be possible by launching a multi-drone attack on large numbers of people in a synchronised attack."

Toy drones, which are popular with amateur photographers, are available from mainstream retailers like Amazon and Maplin and cost as little as £100. Each agile machine could carry enough explosive to kill or maim a person if detonated nearby, and the effects of a fleet of drones dropping bombs on a crowded area would be bloody and devastating. It is thought that evil Islamist fanatics could be looking to target crowds at open-air music festivals and Premier League football grounds for maximum effect.

Colonel Richard Kemp, who has advised the Government on terrorism, told the Mirror: "There is a genuine threat from Islamists wishing to deliver high explosives by drone to crowded areas. The effects could be devastating."

The Satanic Temple has said Saturday’s private event will be open only to people with tickets, $25 each. Invitations to “The Unveiling” summoned guests to prepare for “a night of chaos, noise, and debauchery… Come dance with the Devil and experience history in the making.” The event location is not being announced publicly and is known only to those with tickets.

The group said the bronze Baphomet monument, which weighs about one ton and has never been seen before in public, “is not only an unparalleled artistic triumph, but stands as a testament to plurality and the power of collective action.” The statue, which is backed by an inverted pentagram and flanked by statues of two young children gazing up at the creature, shows Satan with horns, hooves, wings and a beard.

The group went on to say the unveiling event “will serve as a call-to-arms from which we’ll kick off our largest fight to date in the name of individual rights to free exercise against self-serving theocrats.” The Satanic Temple says it advocates for the separation of church and state. It now wants to erect it outside Arkansas’ Statehouse where a Ten Commandments monument also is planned.