RT

South Africa’s 140-year-old gold industry – which was once the world’s largest – is now facing a major crisis. The country’s mineral council says 75 percent of gold mines are unprofitable or barely making money.

The announcement comes as the sector enters wage talks with its employees. Around 200 employer and employee representatives are set to start the negotiations on Wednesday. The number of work stoppages in South Africa increased by eight percent over the past two years to 132.   Continue reading “75% of South African gold mines unprofitable – mineral council”

RT

John Mark Dougan resigned from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office and started a one-man crusade against what he saw as pervasive corruption there. Years later his home was raided by the FBI and he made an escape to Russia.

Dougan is former Marine, who turned to police work after resigning from the military. What he found, he says, was a corrupt system which operated to protect the interests of the rich people of Palm Beach County, Florida, the home of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and cover up the misdeeds of the police itself. Continue reading “Facing the FBI & fleeing to Russia: US ex-cop reveals epic struggle to expose corruption”

Mail.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Trump administration’s failed attempt to detain migrant families together indefinitely ran into a formidable obstacle in a judge whose upbringing was shaped as the daughter of immigrants and who previously rejected requests to allow the government to lock up children with their parents.

Judge Dolly Gee, the first Chinese-American woman appointed to the U.S. District Court, has joked that her mother was her first pro bono client because she had to translate for her at medical appointments and help her apply for jobs as a seamstress when she was just a girl.   Continue reading “Judge puts blame on Trump, Congress for immigration crisis”

Mail.com

SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. (AP) — A firefighter was killed and at least a dozen other people were injured when a natural gas explosion leveled at least two buildings in a Wisconsin community, authorities said Wednesday.

Firefighters arrived to investigate a gas leak in the Madison suburb of Sun Prairie when the explosion happened Tuesday evening, destroying several buildings and igniting a fire that sent billowing smoke that could be seen for miles around.   Continue reading “Firefighter killed in gas explosion, fire near Madison”

Homeland Security News Wire – by Ann Givens and Andrew Knapp

The bureau is getting ready to tap National Data Exchange and its 400 million records to help screen gun buyers. Expert say it would have blocked the Charleston church shooter from obtaining his murder weapon.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is planning a major addition to the gun background check system, years after examiners’ failure to locate critical information allowed a white supremacist to buy the gun he used to murder nine people in a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina.   Continue reading “FBI to add major law enforcement database to gun background check system”

Independent – by Kim Sengupta

Donald Trump is expected to ask European countries at this week’s Nato summit, one of the most crucial and contentious in the history of the alliance, to step up and contribute more troops for the war in Afghanistan.

Other member states, already facing an onslaught from the US president over their shortfalls in defence spending, and facing the threat of funding cuts, are likely to acquiesce. Britain, for example, is expected to double the size of its force to just over 1,200.  Continue reading “Blackwater founder’s plan to privatise America’s $76bn, 17-year war in Afghanistan”

Activist Post – by Aaron Kesel

The “Report It, Don’t Ignore It” application released by Henderson County Public Schools is encouraging students to spy on each other and report suspicious activity within the app, Blue Ridge Now reported.

Henderson County students in the upcoming school year will be able to report their peers to administrators using their smartphones.   Continue reading “New App “Report It, Don’t Ignore It” Encourages Students To Spy On Each Other”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

The energy community was looking with particular interest to the latest, just released July OPEC monthly report, for signs of the promised – if only by Saudi Arabia – boost in oil output, and it got what it was looking for, if to a lesser extent than some had expected: in June, OPEC’s collective oil production rose by 173Kb/d to 32.327MM, according to secondary sources.   Continue reading “Saudi Oil Production Surges By Over 400,000 Barrels In June: OPEC”

Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan

A writer for the world’s richest man at The Washington Post celebrated July 4th by highlighting a town in Texas which is a model city for open borders advocates.

From The Washington Post, ‘An all-American city that speaks Spanish’: Immigration isn’t a problem for this Texas town — it’s a way of life:   Continue reading “WashPo Hails ‘All-American City That Speaks Spanish’ As Victory For Immigration. Residents Say It’s The Most ‘Unsafe’ City In America”

Technology Review

A decision from the US Department of Justice allows the online distribution of computer-designed gun models.

Looking back: Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, created and fired the first fully 3-D printed gun in 2013. The gun’s design files, which he uploaded on his website Defcad.com, were downloaded hundreds of thousands of times in a few days.  Continue reading “The files you need to make your own gun can now be legally shared online”

Natural News – by Bridgette Wilcox

As far as survival tools go, you really can’t get much better than trees. Obviously, there’s the fact that they’re a major source of oxygen. As if supplying humans with the element they need to keep breathing isn’t enough, trees are also generous with providing food, shelter, and even raw materials for making tools. On a practical note, trees can help you mark the passing of time in a survival situation. You may not know exactly what day it is, but you can get an idea of what season it is based on the leaves of trees. As a habitat for different animal species, they also encourage biodiversity. Of course, some trees are better than others, depending on the situation you’re in. Here are 10 North America trees that are good for helping human survival, according to AskaPrepper.com:   Continue reading “10 North American trees every survivalist should know”

News Au – by Megan Palin

“THIS will make a great movie some day.”

It’s a sentiment that’s echoed around the globe as millions of people watch on and champion the ongoing rescue of 12 young boys and their soccer coach stuck in a Thailand cave, in the country’s north.

But for some Hollywood producers, there’s no time to waste, and “some day” may as well be now. Continue reading “Thailand cave movie: Hollywood producers already on the scene”

The Organic Prepper

Sometimes people think that a summer power outage is easier to deal with than a winter one. After all, in the summer, you don’t have to worry about freezing to death, which is a very real threat during a long-lasting winter outage.

However, a summer power outage carries its own set of problems. Foremost are heat-related illnesses and the higher potential of spoilage for your food.   Continue reading “How to Survive a Summer Power Outage”

FAIR – by Jim Naureckas

There’s a category of story we call “Them Not Us”—US media reporting on problems abroad, and seemingly not noticing that they have the same problems at home. There’s a great example of that in the New York Times (7/8/18), headlined “Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: AI, Shame and Lots of Cameras.” Continue reading “‘Dystopia’ in Chinese Surveillance Looks a Lot Like US Surveillance”

Fox News

WATFORD CITY, N.D. –  A newborn baby was killed and more than two dozen people were injured when a tornado whipped through a North Dakota oil patch city overnight, overturning recreational vehicles and demolishing more than 100 structures, officials said Tuesday.

The storm moved through Watford City, in the northwestern part of the state, shortly after midnight, hitting an RV park the hardest, according to sheriff’s officials. About 20 of the reported 28 injured were staying at the Prairie View RV Park where high winds overturned some campers and damaged mobile homes.   Continue reading “Baby killed, dozens hurt when tornado hits North Dakota city”

Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

The image [below] is of the 73 firearms turned in on the 30th of June, 2018, in Montgomery, Alabama.  While there are many inexpensive firearms on the table, there are some classic and expensive collector items as well.

I see a Hi Standard Model B .22, a Beretta pocket tip up model, a Smith & Wesson Victory model, and a Colt pocket auto.32.  One of the “assault weapons” is a Mossberg 715T, which is an straight blowback Mossberg .22, dressed in a plastic shell to make it look like an AR15 clone.    Continue reading “Gun Turn-in Montgomery Alabama: Trash and Treasures Turned In at “buyback””