Europe

Russia have accused America of arming ISIS militants in Europe with deadly chemical weapons, which they say will be used on the people of Europe in order to instigate a huge civil war.  A report circulating in the Kremlin says that the U.S. Army contracted 17 biological and chemical weapons companies to expand the bio-chemical weapons programme in Europe, which Putin has said puts Russia and the rest of Europe at “grave risk” from the weapons falling into the wrong hands.

Officials in Europe are handing out leaflets outlining the ethical behavior required from male refugees towards women, in case they want to suddenly express their repressed sexual feelings while enjoying freedom, liberty, democracy and a swim in Germany or other pools in Europe. It comes after the German town of Bornheim banned refugee men from public swimming pools after some local women complained of sexual harassment.

Tony Blair has said that Britain should be part of the proposed EU army and stay in the union despite the efforts of  “backward-looking” Euroskeptics to withdraw Writing in Newsweek magazine, the former Brutish prime minister said there has never been a stronger need for European unity and that the EU must bind together and ignore those who are “forever looking backward to break the union asunder.” RT reports: Blair said the rise of China and India as major global powers meant the balance of global power may shift.

Submitted by Judith Bergman via The Gatestone Institute,

• Europe has voluntarily begun the process of giving up its liberal and hard-fought-for freedoms. Free speech no longer exists, only -- straight out of totalitarian ideologies -- "responsible" free speech: "free" only if it does not "offend" anyone.

I’m about to walk out the door, headed to Wichita for the Eighth Day Institute’s symposium. I won’t be able to check in until tonight, so please be patient. Before I go, here’s something to think about: Kenneth Minogue’s 2003 essay on what “Christophobia” — the fear and loathing of Christianity — has to do with the West and its future. Excerpts: