goldcore_chart1_21-04-15Gold Core – by Mark O’Byrne

Russia increased its gold holdings by one million ounces in March, bringing its total reserves to nearly 40 million ounces or 1,238 metric tonnes. The Russian one million ounce gold purchase is a large one even by Russian standards as in recent years they have consistently been buying roughly 300,000 ounces per month.

It followed a two month break from the gold market which had led to erroneous speculation that Russia was not interested in increasing its gold reserves any further.   Continue reading “Currency Wars Back As Russia Buys One Million Ounces of Gold in March”

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CINCINNATI — Procter & Gamble will cut another 3,000 to 6,000 office jobs worldwide in the next two years, senior executives said Thursday.

An unknown number of cuts could occur here, where the company is headquartered and has only 90 manufacturing jobs.

Details of the additional job cuts came as chief financial officer Jon Moeller updated analysts and reporters after the company posted lackluster financial results for P&G’s third quarter. P&G (PG) has been cutting thousands of jobs since February 2012 when it first announced it would slash 5,700 jobs or 10% of its non-manufacturing jobs.   Continue reading “P&G cutting more office jobs, up to 6,000 worldwide”

AOL – by AMANDA LEE MYERS and TOM FOREMAN Jr.

BALTIMORE (AP) — In the clearest acknowledgement of failure yet, Baltimore police said Friday that Freddie Gray should have received medical attention at the spot where he was arrested – before he was put inside a police van.

Officers missed “multiple” opportunities to give him medical attention and once inside the van, Gray should’ve been buckled into a seat belt. The department’s acknowledgement came at a news conference after a week of intense scrutiny and near-daily demonstrations over what protesters say is police mistreatment of blacks in Baltimore and throughout the country.   Continue reading “Police: Gray should’ve received medical care before ride”

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Breitbart – by Daniel Nussbaum

Five cast members of the upcoming Ferguson stage play abruptly quit this week after reading the play’s script, which recreates the shooting death of teenager Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson using testimony taken from the grand jury proceedings in the case.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the cast members quit the production after learning the true circumstances surrounding Brown’s death. Playwright and producer Phelim McAleer told Breitbart News that the script is based strictly on grand jury testimony, with “nothing added. No dialogue, no characters.”   Continue reading “‘Ferguson’ Play Cast Members Quit After Learning Truth About Michael Brown Shooting”

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, Utah — A woman in Saratoga Springs said she got a feeling Monday morning that her husband was in trouble. So she rushed home and ended up saving his life.

According to police, 43-year-old Scott Mayhew was inside his garage on North Taylor Street, working on his car, when the vehicle fell off the jack crushing the man’s chest.

For an hour and a half the man laid trapped and injured, yelling for help.   Continue reading “Saratoga Springs man recovering after wife found him trapped underneath car”

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Natural News – by Daniel Barker

The kidnapping of children by Child Protection Services has become all too common in recent years. Often, the removal of children from their homes is completely unjustified and carried out for the flimsiest of reasons.

Such is the case concerning Angela Borths, a caring mother whose three young children have been taken into custody by Oregon CPS authorities. Borths has been accused of “medical neglect,” a very serious-sounding charge, and one which seems totally unfounded when one examines the details involved in the decision.   Continue reading “Oregon kidnaps mom’s three children after deciding her family isn’t tall enough”

Twice a year Panama City Beach welcomes our wounded heroes into the community for the Warrior Beach Retreat, but an event aimed at honoring our nationEstablished in 1898, Zeta Beta Tau is the world’s first Jewish fraternity…

WJHG 7 – by Kelly Baumgarten

PANAMA CITY BEACH– UPDATE: March 23 12:30 p.m.

Emory University released this statement Thursday morning by email:

“Emory University was appalled to learn of acts of disrespect and harassment that were directed at attendees of the Warrior Beach Retreat in Florida this past weekend.   Continue reading “College Students Disrespect Veterans at the Warrior Beach Retreat”

Indian Country – by Vincent Schilling

Approximately a dozen Native actors and actresses, as well as the Native cultural advisor, left the set of Adam Sandler’s newest film production,The Ridiculous Six, on Wednesday. The actors, who were primarily from the Navajo nation, left the set after the satirical western’s script repeatedly insulted native women and elders and grossly misrepresented Apache culture.

The examples of disrespect included Native women’s names such as Beaver’s Breath and No Bra, an actress portraying an Apache woman squatting and urinating while smoking a peace pipe, and feathers inappropriately positioned on a teepee.   Continue reading “Native Actors Walk off Set of Adam Sandler Movie After Insults to Women, Elders”

Ben Swann – by Rachel Blevins

On Thursday, dashcam video was published by WPTV, which depicted an encounter between 20-year-old Dontrell Stephens and Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Deputy Adam Lin that left Stephens paralyzed from the waist down in September 2013.

The video shows Lin trailing Stephens, as Stephens rides on his bicycle while talking on his cellphone. Stephens pulls off to the side of the road, gets off of his bicycle, walks towards Lin and out of the dash cam’s frame, with his cellphone in his right hand.   Continue reading “Florida Deputy Pursues, Shoots Unarmed Man Holding Cellphone”

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Aljazeera – by Jenifer Fenton

The recent arrests on terrorism-related charges of six young Somali-Americans from Minneapolis and others throughout the United States have prompted renewed questions over the issue of entrapment, and over the degree of real security achieved by disrupting plots that law-enforcement had helped shape. Continue reading “US law enforcement accused of using entrapment to ensnare ‘terrorists’”

The American Spectator – by Paul Kengor

As president, Barack Obama is many things — many unprecedented things. There’s the commendable: the truly historic achievement (with apologies to Bill Clinton) of being the first black president. There’s the dubious: the lamentable distinction (christened by Newt Gingrich) of being the first “food stamp president.”

But here’s an intriguing, provocative thought: Is Barack Obama our first “Red Diaper Baby” president? Gee, that would be unprecedented.   Continue reading “Our First ‘Red Diaper Baby’ President?”

How to clean your AK 47Survivopedia – by Fred Tyrell

Many preppers turn to Survivopedia asking what would be the best survival gun. There are a lot to consider before giving them any answer, if you think about how different people are. But one thing applies to everyone relying on firearms for self-defense: the best survival gun is the one that you already have.

Still owning a gun means more than shooting once in a while: without proper maintenance and cleaning it will let you down in the most critical moments.   Continue reading “How To Clean Your AK-47 Rifle”

Navy variant of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. (Flickr/U.S. Navy photo courtesy Lockheed Martin/Released)RT

US Vice President Joe Biden said that Israel will be getting a shipment of the United States’ new F-35 fighter jet so that its military can retain its “qualitative edge” in the Middle East.

Biden made the announcement in Washington, DC while giving a speech during a celebration of Israel’s Independence Day, Reuters reported. The relationship between Israel and the US has been strained over the past few years due to disagreements about Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories and Iran’s nuclear program, but the two nations continue to maintain strong military ties.   Continue reading “US to deliver F-35 jets to Israel to maintain military edge”

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NEW YORK (AP) — What killed Comcast’s $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable? Regulators’ desire to protect the Internet video industry that is reshaping TV.

A combination of the No. 1 and No. 2 U.S. cable companies would have put nearly 30 percent of TV and about 55 percent of broadband subscribers under one roof, along with NBCUniversal, giving the resulting behemoth unprecedented power over what Americans watch and download.   Continue reading “Comcast abandons Time Warner Cable bid after gov’t pushback”

The Organic Prepper

Gastrointestinal upsets have been sweeping the country this spring.

First, there was an outbreak of drug-resistant shigellosis. This bacterial infection is also known as “Montezuma’s revenge” or “traveler’s diarrhea.”  It usually affects people visiting Third World destinations and is caused by drinking water that hasn’t been properly purified. This version has hit Americans in California, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, and 90% of the cases have not responded to the normal treatment of an antibiotic called Cipro.  The symptoms are watery or bloody diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever and fatigue.  While it will eventually go away without treatment, most of the time doctors prescribe antibiotics to speed recovery.   Continue reading “6 Natural Remedies for Vomiting and Diarrhea”