In a report delivered to the government on anti-Semitism around the world, the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs highlighted spikes in anti-Semitic activity on the internet and in Europe, particularly Germany. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs presented the cabinet on Sunday with a new system for monitoring anti-Semitism on the internet along with its annual report on anti-Semitism worldwide.

According to a new report released by the ministry, 2016 saw a record number of anti-Semitic incidents in Germany, due in part to the refugee crisis and the improvement in the quality of reporting. Federal police figures show that between January and September 2016, 461 anti-Semitic incidents were reported. That represents an increase of 200 percent compared to 2015, with the majority of incidents related to the strengthening of far-right extremist movements.

In addition, the report shows that anti-Semitic discourse in Britain has reached worrying levels and entered politics. Fifty members of the Labour Party have been suspended in the last few years for anti-Semitic and racist comments. This includes rank-and-file members and senior officials, such as the former Mayor of London and MP Ken Livingstone, who said "Hitler supported Zionism."

Was Seth Rich murdered for being the source for WikiLeaks?

Many have speculated what happened to the DNC staffer after he was mysteriously murdered around the exact same time he worked to file a lawsuit against the DNC for rigging the election against Bernie Sanders and in favor of Hillary Clinton.

There are a ton of issues with the entire situation, but Julian Assange may have tipped his hand on this case. Wikileaks announced months ago that they would offer a $20,000 reward for information that lead to a conviction in the Seth Rich murder case

Seth Rich worked for the DNC as a voter database employee. The case has no witnesses, clues, or evidence, and it has sparked many to revisit claims of a possible Clinton kill list.

Clue#1: Less than a week after the initial WikiLeaks email dump, Rich was shot in the back of the head late at night while walking back to his apartment. He was not robbed nor was his apartment broken into.

Clue #2: Julian Assange has never offered a reward of any kind and has never spoken on behalf of anyone being named as a source.

When you watch the two minute video below, notice Assange's mannerisms and how careful thought out his answers are. He is struggling to keep Rich a secret, but we can clearly see he was the source that played a major role in taking down Hillary Clinton.

Well, we've all survived inauguration weekend...so far. That's a start, right? It's certainly a sign of something when we take some measure of comfort in the fact that the world hasn't quite ended yet, but you don't need me to tell you that. Everyone can feel it deep down. Whether it's the fake news squawking their propaganda louder than ever, or protests and riots mixed with rumors of protests and riots, or wars of words between the newly-crowned president and...well, almost everyone, things seem to be full-on crazy and getting crazier by the minute.

Don't you just wish for some "normality" right now? Wouldn't it be nice to go back to that bygone time of a couple of decades ago when the world didn't seem so insane?

That's the trick. That's exactly what you're supposed to be feeling right now. Allow me to explain.

You see, everyone in "conspiracyland" is familiar with that old Masonic dictum, ordo ab chao. For those who stumbled onto this article from "Fakenewsestablishmentland," that's Latin for "order out of chaos," and it refers to the tried-and-true method of would-be tyrants everywhere for moving society in a given direction. In short: Generate chaos in order to provide the type of "order" you wanted all along.

In order to pass a PATRIOT Act, you need a 9/11. So, if you were a would-be tyrant who wanted to gain total control over the internet via an i-PATRIOT Act, what would you do? If you answered "Stage a cyber 9/11!" then give yourself a cookie; you get the idea. (Bonus points if you suggested appointing one of the key 9/11 cover-up artists to the position of "cyberczar.")

But there's a corollary to "order out of chaos" that often gets overlooked: If you want to transition from one order to the next (an "old world order" to a "new world order," if you will), then you need to create chaos. And the bigger the transition, the more havoc needs to be generated in order to bring it about.

It would be difficult to argue that we're not going through such a transition right now. We are simultaneously facing:

• The breakdown of the international monetary order.
• The breakdown of the international security order (aka "Pax Americana").
• The breakdown of the political order (in America, Britain, Italy, Korea and elsewhere).
• The breakdown of societal order (in America, Europe and elsewhere).

That's a lot of chaos. And everyone is feeling it. There are worries about trade wars and new trade compacts that might emerge in the coming years. There are worries about actual wars that might take place if the bellicose warmongering from certain circles isn't tamped down soon.

The world order of the 20th century "is over for good" now that Donald Trump has taken office, while times of uncertainty and turbulence lie ahead, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in an op-ed for Bild magazine.

"As always when power changes hands, there are uncertainties, doubts and questions about the course the new leadership will take," Steinmeier wrote in an opinion piece for Bild's Sunday edition. "But in these times of a new global disorder it is about more, and there is a lot at stake today - with the election of Donald Trump the old world of the 20th century is over for good," Steinmeier stated. The op-ed comes shortly after Trump was sworn in as 45th US president.

Steinmeier wrote that he is committed to Berlin's vision regarding free trade, fighting extremism and terrorism, as well as maintaining trust in transatlantic relations, but added that "turbulent times" lie ahead.

The 60-year-old Social Democrat is highly respected at in Germany where he is regarded as a balanced and open-minded politician. In November last year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that her ruling coalition will back Steinmeier as Germany's president.

The announcement effectively paves the way for Steinmeier to be elected by the Federal Convention - which includes members of the Bundestag and the same number of delegates from parliaments of German states - on February 12 to the largely ceremonial post now held by Joachim Gauck.

The top German diplomat has recently emerged as a vocal critic of US President Donald Trump. When the US election campaign was in full swing, Steinmeier branded the tycoon-turned-politician "a hate preacher," stressing that he and the European far-right "make politics with fear."

In a scathing final assessment Russian Prime Minister Medvedev accuses former US President Obama of wrecking US-Russian relations by paying no heed to Russian concerns and by underestimating Russia.

Observing Russian practice, Russian President Putin has been careful to avoid making any personal comments about Barack Obama, now no longer President of the United States.

I would add that it is a courtesy that was not reciprocated. Obama on occasion personally, and his officials frequently - including especially Vice-President Biden - spoke of Putin, and did so in the most offensive terms.

It has therefore been left to Prime Minister Medvedev to sum up the Russian government's view of Obama and his administration in - of all places - a Facebook post.

Russia has cautiously welcomed the US presidency of Donald Trump, but still Moscow is wisely keeping a wait-and-see position on whether it can work with the new White House occupant to improve international relations.

Trump's oft-stated desire to restore friendlier relations with Russia and his comment last week that he would trust Russian leader Vladimir Putin as much as he would Germany's Angela Merkel are all to be welcomed as apparent steps toward a more sane US policy.

However, there remain big questions about Trump's reliability in following through.

Trump's apparent aspirations for normalizing relations with Russia are certainly more promising than the aggressive, Russophobia that has been the staple of Washington's policy under his predecessors, Barack Obama and George W Bush. But can the former business mogul deliver?

There's more than a sneaking feeling that the billionaire property magnate turned politician says a lot of things which he subsequently flatly contradicts. It's not clear if this trait is due to willful deception, or less maliciously, due to a feckless, short attention span. Either way, the upshot is a character of questionable integrity.

Over the weekend, following Trump's inauguration as the 45th president of the United States, we got more of a flavor of his vacillating brand.

On Saturday, the first full day as president, Trump's first official duty was to visit the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, at Langley, Virginia, just across the Potomac River from his White House residence in Washington DC.

There he lavished the agency with praise and gratitude, saying he was "1,000 per cent" in support of its intelligence work. Trump also scoffed at media reports that he was involved in a feud with the CIA. "No-one supports you as much as I do," said Trump to cheering agency staffers.

Improving relations with a gun-shy and suspicious Russia will require considerable creativity and persistence on the part of our policy makers.

I write today from Moscow, where I have been invited by one of the Russian state television networks broadcasting to the domestic audience to participate in their talk shows before and immediately after the Inauguration of Donald Trump.

Contrary to what you might expect from the content of American mainstream media, or from the celebratory programming of Russia Today, which is beamed to international audiences, the mood and expectations of Official Russia towards Trump's coming to power are quite muted.

To be sure, there was no Women's March down the streets of Moscow to protest the accession to power of Donald Trump. But neither was there a fireworks display to celebrate the installation in Washington of the new "Manchurian Candidate" who is about to do the Kremlin's bidding, as we have heard from the bitterly partisan narrative fabricated by the coalition of Neoconservatives and Liberal Hawks occupying central ground in US political life.

From what I saw on Friday as an invitee to a top rated talk show, an invitee whose flight to Moscow and expenses on the ground were generously paid by my hosts, directives from communications bosses in the Kremlin overrode the inclinations of the show's producers and in my presence there was a tug-of-war within the show's production team over when and for how long to give me the microphone. In the meanwhile, the microphone was offered repeatedly and without hesitation to the other American on the panel who represents the evil, Russophobic America that your average Russian television viewer loves to hate on this and many other talk shows produced by the country's leading broadcasters, Pervy Kanal, Rossiya-1-Vesti 24 and NTV.

Former WSJ reporter Asra Nomani asks in the NYT's "Women In the World" section what is the link between one of Hillary Clinton's largest donors and the Women's March? Her answer: "as it turns out, it's quite significant."

Here is what else she discovered.

Billionaire George Soros has ties to more than 50 'partners' of the Women's March on Washington

In the pre-dawn darkness of today's presidential inauguration day, I faced a choice, as a lifelong liberal feminist who voted for Donald Trump for president: lace up my pink Nike sneakers to step forward and take the DC Metro into the nation's capital for the inauguration of America's new president, or wait and go tomorrow to the after-party, dubbed the "Women's March on Washington"?

With the recent inauguration of Donald Trump as 45^th president of the United States, for the first time in history, the great nations of the world have fallen into a common spirit of understanding and outlook which provides the means to extinguish the plague of oligarchism, poverty and war both on the surface of the earth and beyond.

Since the signing of the integration treaty between Russia's Eurasian Economic Union and China's New Silk Road (One Belt One Road) in May 2015, the two greatest forces of Eurasia have created a pro-development dynamic stronger than anything humanity has seen before. So strong in fact, that India and Pakistan have been able to move on board, becoming members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization along with Iran, establishing great megaprojects with China linking their destinies ever more closely to the World Land bridge grand design laid out by the Schiller Institute for over 40 years. A new hope has been felt in Syria and the greater Middle East where, due to Russian intervention and Chinese investment, the neo-con agenda for regime change has largely been thwarted, and even the Philippines and Japan have put their fates increasingly into the Eurasian development dynamic and no longer in the Anglo-American "Pivot to Asia" which called for inevitable war with China.

Israel has approved an additional 560 housing units to be constructed as part of its illegal settlement-building initiative in occupied East Jerusalem. The announcement comes 48 hours after Donald Trump took office as the 45th US president.

Israel Radio talked to the Chairman of Jerusalem city hall's Planning and Building committee, Meir Turgeman, who said the permits had been in the works, but delayed until Barack Obama was out of office.

"I was told to wait until Trump takes office because he has no problem with building in Jerusalem," Turgeman told Israel Radio, adding that there were hundreds more units awaiting approval.

Nabil Abu Rdainah, spokesman Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, told Reuters: "We strongly condemn the Israeli decision to approve the construction."