In the 1970s the establishment was screaming about a coming ice age. In the 1980s into the 1990s they were yelling about holes in the ozone layer and how people would be fried to death by solar radiation. Now for the past few decades they have been promoting the threat of global warming as the next looming environmental disaster. The one thing that all of these alleged environmental problems have in common is that they are complete and total lies. We never saw an ice age, people did not get fried from solar radiation and global warming of any legitimate significance is not occurring.

These are invented environmental problems created by statist elites so they can push laws to restrict and control what people can and cannot do under the guise of environmental protection. Many ask why so many scientists accept the notion that man-made carbon emissions are causing the earth to get warmer. This is actually a talking point the global warming propagandists like to use when trying to make their case. The answer to this question is pretty straight forward. Scientists go along with the scam because if they don’t then their research funding will get pulled.

By going along with this fraud they continue getting financing for their projects so it is much easier for them to go along with the big lie versus going against the grain of established orthodoxy. Some scientists have even gone so far as to doctor and manipulate data so it would help substantiate the hoax. With billions of dollars funnelled into this scheme it is easy to see why some would sell their soul for this lie.

The King of Spain admitted privately in a meeting with the then British ambassador to Madrid, Sir Richard Parsons, that it was "not in Spain's interest to recover Gibraltar in the near future". If it did so, "King Hassan would immediately reactivate the Moroccan claim to Ceuta and Melilla," the monarch, who celebrated his 76th birthday on Sunday, reportedly said during the meeting in Madrid in July 1983.

Details of the meeting were released last week by the National Archives in Kew as part of a swathe of secret government papers declassified under the 30-year rule and are likely to cause some discomfort after a year that saw Spain's government reiterate calls for talks over sovereignty.

“The Germans just seem to be very irritated with the US making suggestions. They view the world totally differently,” Lachman said. The Germans believe that their balanced budget and structural reforms have served them very well and remain the right prescription for weaker euro-area countries, he said.

The US believes this belt-tightening medicine is “very problematic for quite a number of countries in the periphery,” which continue to see high unemployment, weak growth and falling prices, Lachman said. A Treasury official told reporters last week that Lew will discuss details of economic reforms announced last month by the coalition German government and will focus on which steps could boost domestic demand.

If Lew’s visit follows past trips from Obama administration officials to Germany since the 2008 financial crisis, the talks between Lew and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble will be another “dialogue of the deaf,” Lachman said. Lew will meet with Schaeuble in Berlin after talks with senior French government officials in Paris on Tuesday. He will stop in Lisbon for talks with Portuguese officials at the end of his rapid three-day visit.

Europe remains the “big worry” in the global economy while both the US and Japanese economies are appearing to strengthen somewhat, Lachman said. While European officials have said the region has turned the corner, Lachman argued in a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that such optimism might be premature.

According to Yediot Aharonot, Regev will formally submit the law on Sunday, to the Ministerial Committee on Legislation, whose role it is to decide what bills will enjoy the Coalition's support in the Knesset plenum. The bill would forbid the prime minister from carrying out diplomatic negotiations on the status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, or on the so-called “refugee issue,” unless the Knesset gives him permission to do so ahead of time.

"Negotiations on these issues, which begin without Knesset approval, will not be binding,” the bill states. “In such a case, its results will not be binding on any governmental body, nor will it or its results have any validity vis-a-vis the state of Israel, the government of Israel, or other governmental authorities of the state of Israel.”

Nonetheless, both Republicans and Democrats in Washington continue to maintain that America requires more unskilled, cheap labor via immigration, despite the loss of 6 million factory jobs between 2000 and 2009. That has been the pitch from immigration reform advocates, who insist that the cure-all for the American economy is an endless supply of less educated migrants to fill “the jobs Americans won’t.”

Meanwhile, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (Democrat) is pushing a $4.5 million effort to retrain workers in other industries, including “green jobs.” While 85 former workers at the plant have taken advantage of the program, just 49 have been able to secure permanent employment.

It was the last procedural hurdle for the 67-year-old before taking over from outgoing chair Ben Bernanke on 1 February. She is the first woman to lead the central bank in its 100-year history. President Barack Obama welcomed the vote, saying in a statement: "The American people will have a fierce champion who understands that the ultimate goal of economic and financial policymaking is to improve the lives, jobs and standard of living of American workers and their families."

She will face a difficult road ahead once Mr Bernanke steps down after eight years in office. Although most analysts expect Ms Yellen to continue Mr Bernanke's efforts to boost the US economy by keeping short term interest rates low, she will eventually face unchartered territory once the central bank begins to ease back on its extraordinary measures.

Ms Yellen was a strong supporter of the Fed's current stimulus efforts - a $75 billion a month bond buying programme known as quantitative easing. By buying bonds, particularly mortgage bonds, the Fed has tried to keep long term interest rates low to spur housing activity and encourage investors to spend, rather than save, their money. In doing so, the Fed has amassed close to $4 trillion in assets since it first initiated its stimulus efforts in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial collapse - a fact that some senators criticised during Monday's confirmation hearings.

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall were among the companies named. These deals helped inflate the country's debts and were, therefore, in part responsible for escalating the crisis. Others, such as Siemens, had also paid millions in bribes to land lucrative contracts from Athens.

According to a Greek journalist, who has done extensive research on corruption in Greece, German companies are the "main beneficiaries" of Greece joining the Euro zone because they subsequently profited from highly lucrative Greek government contracts. The sumptuous contracts helped plunge Greece into crisis while they, at the same time, helped the German industry to blaze its trail to the predominant position in Europe.

That is because the card giants, owners of the processing networks that handle electronic payments, have quietly decided not to enforce their rules, according to people familiar with their strategies.

Instead, the people said, the companies are following the lead of the federal government, which has said it won't challenge state laws that decriminalize the drug.

Visa said in a statement that it follows federal law and tries to prevent the network from being used unlawfully. But it added that "given the federal government's position and recognizing this is an evolving legal matter with different standards applicable in different states, our local merchant acquirers are best suited to make any determination about potential illegality."

Abbas Zaki posted a clip of the interview - which was promptly translated and circulated by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) - onto his Facebook page. In response to concern expressed by the interviewer that any US-imposed deal would be "deficient", insofar as it would "only" require Israel to cede Judea and Samaria, a smiling Zaki urges calm.

"You can relax. We find ourselves united for the first time. Even the most extreme among us, Hamas, or the fighting forces, want a state within the '67 borders [sic]. Afterward, we [will] have something to say, because the inspiring idea cannot be achieved all at once. [Rather] in stages," he responded.

The strategy to eradicate the Jewish state "in stages" via a combination of terrorism and diplomacy, as opposed to in a single military conquest, has been voiced by many PA officials in the past, who note that Israel cannot be destroyed in one fell swoop. Palestinian Media Watch has exposed a string of such statements by senior officials in the past, casting serious doubt over the viability of the Obama administration's recent attempt to impose a solution to the conflict.

Appearing on Sky’s Murnaghan show the Ukip leader was read excerpts from the speech without being told the origin of the comments and nodded along. When it was revealed the words had been from Powell Mr Farage said: “Well what he was warning about was the large influx of people into an area, that change an area beyond recognition, there is tension – the basic principle is right.”

In the speech Mr Powell said that the “indigenous” population of Britain in the 1960s had found their “homes and neighbourhoods changed beyond recognition.” A situation that Mr Farage said was now true for much of England.

Mr Farage added: “For different reasons, and on a completely different scale. When immigration was being discussed in the sixties, seventies and eighties we were talking about an annual net inflow to the country of between 30 and 50,000 people a year. What we have had in the last thirteen years is net 4 million extra migrants coming to Britain."

The newly mechanized armies of the early 20th century produced unprecedented slaughter on the battlefields of the "war to end all wars" after a spark lit in the Balkans with the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Professor Margaret MacMillan, of the University of Cambridge, argues that the Middle East could be viewed as the modern-day equivalent of this turbulent region.

A nuclear arms race that would be likely to start if Iran developed a bomb "would make for a very dangerous world indeed, which could lead to a recreation of the kind of tinderbox that exploded in the Balkans 100 years ago – only this time with mushroom clouds," she writes in an essay for the Brookings Institution, a leading US think-tank.

Icy conditions snarled travel across the Midwest and thousands of flights were canceled or delayed, days after the Northeast was hammered by the first winter storm of the season.

"The coldest temperatures in almost two decades will spread into the northern and central US today behind an arctic cold front," the National Weather Service said on Sunday. "Combined with gusty winds, these temperatures will result in life-threatening wind chill values as low as 60 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit/minus 51 degrees Celsius)." In weather that cold, frostbite can set in on uncovered skin in a matter of minutes, experts warned.

ABC News reports that ice-breakers have been deployed to Lake Michigan to clear the way for freighters.

The environment secretary said seven people had died and 1,700 homes had been flooded in England due to storms and flooding in December and January. There are currently three severe flood warnings in place in England and travel by road and rail is being hit.

Western and southern areas are bearing the brunt of the latest severe weather, and forecasters are warning that flooding could be worse than that seen in recent days. BBC Weather's Chris Fawkes warns of hail and thunder mixed with the heaviest downpours.

In a lengthy denunciation of British policy published in Argentine daily Pagina 12 (Page 12), Héctor Timerman, the country's foreign minister, painted Argentina as a valiant underdog cheered on by the world in its David and Goliath-esque battle with an arrogant but ailing colonial power.

He accused Britain of "inappropriate" aggression in its attempt to maintain sovereignty over the Falklands, attributing such behaviour to its "failed attempt to confuse the world" - a reference in part to the islands' 2013 referendum - over what he characterised as the "colonial and military occupation of Argentine territory". Argentina, meanwhile, had through its "peaceful struggle" garnered "renewed and vigorous support the world over, including in Britain" for its claim, the minister said.

Mr Timerman has as foreign minister spearheaded the country's renewed campaign to claim the territory, Britain's sovereignty over which has long rankled in the Argentine historical consciousness. The issue was largely dropped from the public agenda following Britain's victory in the 1982 Falklands War but it remained an open sore and has been seized upon as a nationalist rallying cry by Cristina Kirchner, Argentina's embattled leftist president.

Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California recently discovered that the number of dead sea creatures blanketing the floor of the Pacific is higher than it has ever been in the 24 years that monitoring has taken place, a phenomenon that the data suggests is a direct consequence of nuclear fallout from Fukushima.

Though the researchers involved with the work have been reluctant to pin Fukushima as a potential cause - National Geographic, which covered the study recently, did not even mention Fukushima - the timing of the discovery suggests that Fukushima is, perhaps, the cause. According to the data, this sudden explosion in so-called "sea snot," which is the name given to the masses of dead sea creatures that sink to the ocean floor as food, has skyrocketed since the Fukushima incident occurred.

"In the 24 years of this study, the past two years have been the biggest amounts of this detritus by far," stated Christine Huffard, a marine biologist at MBARI and leader of the study, to National Geographic. "In March 2012, less than one percent of the seafloor beneath Station M was covered in dead sea salps," writes Carrie Arnold for National Geographic. "By July 1, more than 98 percent of it was covered in the decomposing organisms... The major increase in activity of deep-sea life in 2011 and 2012 weren't limited to Station M, though: Other ocean-research stations reported similar data."

It is almost as if the powers that be want us all to forget about Fukushima and the catastrophic damage it continues to cause to our planet. But they will not be able to cover up the truth forever, as human life is dependent upon healthy oceans, the life of which provides the oxygen that we all need to breathe and survive.