Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Back in April, precious metal traders felt vindicated when Deutsche Bank agreed to settle a July 2014 lawsuit alleging precious metal manipulation by a consortium of banks. As a reminder, In July 2014 we reported that a group of silver bullion banks including Deutsche Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia and HSBC (later UBS was also added to the defendants) were accused of manipulating prices in the multi-billion dollar market. The lawsuit, which was originally filed in a New York district court by veteran litigator J. Scott Nicholson, a resident of Washington DC, alleged that the banks, which oversee the century-old silver fix manipulated the physical and COMEX futures market since January 2007. The lawsuit subsequently received class-action status. It was the first case to target the silver fix.
Continue reading “In Major Victory For Gold And Silver Traders, Manipulation Lawsuit Against Gold-Fixing Banks Ordered To Proceed”

Washington Examiner – by Paul Bedard

In the latest partisan escalation on the Federal Election Commission, a top Democratic commissioner has ripped a Republican commissioner’s bid to protect books, radio and Internet media from regulation as “pitiful.”

Ann Ravel, a former FEC chairwoman, joined other Democrats at a meeting this month to block Republican Lee Goodman’s proposal to explicitly expand the “press exemption” from regulations to books, satellite radio and Internet-based news media.   Continue reading “FEC war: Dems reject call to protect Internet news, talk radio from regs”

Natural News – by Vicki Batts

Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s greatest minds, believes that genetically modified viruses are one of the greatest threats to mankind. When speaking to the Radio Times before his BBC Reith Lecture, Professor Hawking stated, “We face a number of threats: nuclear war, global warming and genetically engineered viruses.”

The fact that genetically modified viruses were ranked among the likes of nuclear war by one of the brightest individuals in the world should be very alarming. The term “genetically modified viruses” encompasses many different things. In addition to the potential for some of history’s most devastating viruses to be transformed into weapons of mass destruction, there is also an increasing presence of GM viral strains in vaccines. These may also represent a cause for concern.   Continue reading “Did Stephen Hawking just admit that certain vaccines are a threat to mankind?”

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The PPJ Gazette – by Marti Oakley

The view from a political atheist

To all of you whiners and criers out there who whimper or scream hysterically that if I don’t vote I have no right to complain……..the hell if I don’t. I have watched this cycle every four years devolve into some kind of sick comedy act, and this election has got to be the final insult to the American voters.   Continue reading “Election 2016: Are we really going to let them get away with this?”

Reuters

A global agreement to combat climate change by shifting the world economy away from fossil fuels will take force next month after passing a threshold for ratification on Wednesday with support from European nations.

Support for the Paris Agreement has widened to nations representing 56.75 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions, above the 55 percent needed for implementation, a U.N. website showed. The deal will formally start in 30 days.   Continue reading “Paris climate accord ratified, to start next month: U.N.”

Triple Pundit – by Leon Kaye

Weed, California, home to around 2,500 people and just south of the Oregon border in the shadow of Mount Shasta, is best known for its offbeat name and its appearance in John Steinbeck’s classic “Of Mice and Men.”

But now this small town in Siskiyou County is the focal point in the fight between a community’s right to local water and a company’s right to sell it. In an area still recovering from the devastating 2014 Boles Fire, Weed is the David trying to find a voice against a Goliath that insists the town’s water is better served if it is bottled and exported to Japan.   Continue reading “French Billionaire Clashes With Rural California Town Over Water Rights”

Jon Rappoport

After 30 years as an independent reporter, I understand the machinations of the CDC.

As a result, I’ve been able to read their intentions for the future. I’ve been able to see where they’re heading.

Two parallel ops are going to intersect, unless they are stopped. And if they aren’t stopped, there is going to be BIG trouble.   Continue reading “CDC police will eventually arrest the unvaccinated as “diseased criminals””

Free Thought Project – by Claire Bernish

California — In a refreshing and unfortunately rare instance of reasonableness in policy, California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law a piece of legislation requiring police to secure an actual conviction before stealing people’s stuff in drug-related offenses.

Civil asset forfeiture has been rightly likened to state-sanctioned armed robbery, as it allows police to commandeer cash, vehicles, homes, or any property of value — even if the person is never charged with a crime — and then use or sell the items for profit for their departments.   Continue reading “Police Theft So Out of Hand, State Just Passed a Law Banning Cops from Robbing Innocent People”

Constitution – by Michael Ware

There is a clear divide among the states. Some are very welcoming and eager to take in Syrian refugees. While others are resistant and seek to opt out of the program design to resettle the refugees. So a judge has decided which states are right and which are wrong.

The Washington Times reports

States that refuse to help resettle Syrian refugees are guilty of illegal discrimination, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, delivering a judicial rebuke to GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, who as Indiana’s governor had tried to halt Syrian resettlement.
Continue reading “Judge Tells States They Must Take Syrian Refugees”

Reuters

A freight train derailed on Wednesday morning in New York City’s Bronx borough, suspending northbound Amtrak service from the city but causing no injuries.

Video footage from an NBC affiliate’s helicopter showed several cars sitting across the tracks, with at least one on its side.   Continue reading “Freight train derailment in New York disrupts Amtrak service”

Fox News Latino

CARACAS. –  Klaireth Díaz is a 1st-grade teacher at Elías Toro School, one of the biggest public schools in Caracas, the capital of Venezuela.

Last year, she says, attendance was painfully low. Every day, of a class of 30 children at least 10 would be absent.   Continue reading “Venezuelan children fainting in school because they are hungry”

Boing Boing – by ROB BESCHIZZA

Take care when asking provocative questions at Kansas City’s library events:you might end up in jail.

The executive director of Kansas City Libraries says he’s outraged by the charges against Jeremy Rothe-Kushel, a Jewish man grabbed by private security after asking the event’s speaker, former diplomat Dennis Ross, uninvited follow-up questions. Off-duty cops moved in to arrest Rothe-Kushel when he objected to the hands-on treatment—as well as a library staffer who had moved to intervene.   Continue reading “Jewish man arrested at Kansas City library speech after asking “provocative” questions”

RT

The US government is not of a single mind. The Pentagon is more pro-Russian, and the Department of State tends to be more favorable to the terrorists and has no goal other than toppling the Assad government, says Virginia State Senator Richard H. Black.

The US claims the Russian military campaign in Syria has achieved next to nothing. Moreover, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Russia and Syria have rejected diplomacy when it comes to solving the Syrian crisis.   Continue reading “No evidence John Kerry is interested in peace in Syria’ – Virginia senator”

RT

A new study reveals Fortune 500 companies are holding nearly $2.5 trillion in accumulated profits offshore to pay less tax. Top is Apple which since 2009 funneled $214.9 billion to tax havens and would owe $65.4 billion if the profits returned to the US.

The report was published just weeks after a European investigation concluded Ireland provided Apple with a favorable tax rate which allowed the company to pay one percent on EU profits in 2003 down to 0.005 percent in 2014. Apple is now obliged to pay $14.5 billion in back taxes.   Continue reading “Apple biggest tax avoider in US stashing $215bn offshore”

Mail.com

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — People boarded up beach homes, schools closed and officials ordered evacuations along the East Coast on Wednesday as Hurricane Matthew tore through the Bahamas and took aim at Florida, where the governor urged coastal residents to “leave now” if they were able.

Matthew was a dangerous and life-threatening Category 3 storm with sustained winds of 120 mph, and it was expected to be very near Florida’s Atlantic coast by Thursday evening. At least 11 deaths in the Caribbean have been blamed on the storm.   Continue reading “Florida governor: ‘If you’re able to go early, leave now’”

Mail.com

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A former Albuquerque police officer standing trial on a murder charge in the on-duty shooting death of a homeless camper told jurors he had concerns about being in the dark about what prosecutors have described as a botched plan to take the man into custody.

But those concerns didn’t stop SWAT Officer Dominique Perez from following his sergeant’s request for him to join other officers in a hillside standoff. The standoff ended with Perez and now-retired Detective Keith Sandy shooting the homeless man, 38-year-old James Boyd.   Continue reading “Prosecutor questions ex-officer charged in shooting death”