Fed Worries Are Crushing Gold and Silver Stocks ... Gold slumped today, finishing at its lowest level in a month after investors grew worried that the Fed would signal that interest rates would rise when it meets this week. - Motley FoolStrange that the US central bank can preach increased prosperity at a time when some 90-100 million potential workers in the US don't seek formal, mainstream empl...Read More
Sand is essential for modern construction. Almost every new office tower, road and shopping mall being built in Asia's booming cities is made with concrete mixed with sand. And to get more sand, companies and people are pulling sand out of rivers and oceans at an unprecedented rate, say scientists. And in the deep ocean waters off the U.S., sand is being excavated to restore coastlines from Louisi...Read More
The Homeland Security Department is trying to ramp up wearable devices that can detect nuclear radiation ... DHS has made a handful of awards for well-developed prototypes, of wearable products from companies including Leidos and Physical Sciences, Inc., according to a recent FBO posting. Last year, DHS made a broad agency announcement soliciting proposals for so-called Wearable Intelligent Nu...Read More
Hillary, beset by rumors about her health and ethics, is becoming more aggressive with her critics. She is hiring groups to fight back in chat rooms and on websites against criticism, (here).Additionally, she is moving ahead with her campaign as she prefers - and apparently without fear of what her opponents will think - taking a jet for only 20 miles to attend a Rothschild fundraiser in Nantucke...Read More
The Homeland Security Department is trying to ramp up wearable devices that can detect nuclear radiation ... DHS has made a handful of awards for well-developed prototypes, of wearable products from companies including Leidos and Physical Sciences, Inc., according to a recent FBO posting. Last year, DHS made a broad agency announcement soliciting proposals for so-called Wearable Intelligent Nu...Read More
Hillary, beset by rumors about her health and ethics, is becoming more aggressive with her critics. She is hiring groups to fight back in chat rooms and on websites against criticism, (here).Additionally, she is moving ahead with her campaign as she prefers - and apparently without fear of what her opponents will think - taking a jet for only 20 miles to attend a Rothschild fundraiser in Nantucke...Read More
Being an Ideologue Means Never Having to Say You’re Wrong ... "Communism would have worked, if the Soviet Union had only tried it for real." ... For any political-economic ideology, there is always a hard core of believers who will never waver in their conviction that if only the program were tried in its pure form, it would succeed. Any failures — even debacles on a grand scale, inclu...Read More
Being an Ideologue Means Never Having to Say You’re Wrong ... "Communism would have worked, if the Soviet Union had only tried it for real." ... For any political-economic ideology, there is always a hard core of believers who will never waver in their conviction that if only the program were tried in its pure form, it would succeed. Any failures — even debacles on a grand scale, inclu...Read More
How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet Joel Stein ... Troll Culture of Hate Time ... They're turning the web into a cesspool of aggression and violence. What watching them is doing to the rest of us may be even worse ... This story is not a good idea. Not for society and certainly not for me. Because what trolls feed on is attention. And this little bit-these several thousand words-is like leavin...Read More
Brief Donald Trump has beaten Hillary in a major poll.Donald Trump appears to have made a political comeback for the ages, but the media has gone silent about a major new poll that shows the Republican has catapulted back into the lead instead showing their viewers polls from three weeks ago. -SputnikA recent poll released by the USC/LA Times, here, found that Trump held a two point lead over...Read More
BriefPresident Duterte kicks out all presidential appointees in government ... Duterte on Sunday lashed out at the U.S. police killings of black men in his latest outburst against critics of his anti-drug campaign, which has left hundreds of suspects dead. – InquirerPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that he would be firing thousands of federal officials. Duterte is operating...Read More
How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet Joel Stein ... Troll Culture of Hate Time ... They're turning the web into a cesspool of aggression and violence. What watching them is doing to the rest of us may be even worse ... This story is not a good idea. Not for society and certainly not for me. Because what trolls feed on is attention. And this little bit-these several thousand words-is like leavin...Read More
Brief Donald Trump has beaten Hillary in a major poll.Donald Trump appears to have made a political comeback for the ages, but the media has gone silent about a major new poll that shows the Republican has catapulted back into the lead instead showing their viewers polls from three weeks ago. -SputnikA recent poll released by the USC/LA Times, here, found that Trump held a two point lead over...Read More
BriefPresident Duterte kicks out all presidential appointees in government ... Duterte on Sunday lashed out at the U.S. police killings of black men in his latest outburst against critics of his anti-drug campaign, which has left hundreds of suspects dead. – InquirerPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Sunday that he would be firing thousands of federal officials. Duterte is operating...Read More
Wealthy Have Nearly Healed From Recession; the Poor Haven't ... The Great Recession and the subsequent recovery from it have deepened the wedge between the very wealthy and everyone else in America, plunging the poor deeper into debt and wiping out two-fifths of the wealth held by families in the heart of the middle class. The wealthiest Americans, meanwhile, appear close to regaining all their...Read More
Wealthy Have Nearly Healed From Recession; the Poor Haven't ... The Great Recession and the subsequent recovery from it have deepened the wedge between the very wealthy and everyone else in America, plunging the poor deeper into debt and wiping out two-fifths of the wealth held by families in the heart of the middle class. The wealthiest Americans, meanwhile, appear close to regaining all their...Read More
Russia leaves the Dollar based monetary system and adopts a system of Sovereign Currency. The implications are phenomenal! "In 1990 the first priority of Washington and the IMF was to pressure Yeltsin and the Duma to "privatize" the State Bank of Russia, under a Constitutional amendment that mandated the new Central Bank of Russia, like the Federal Reserve or European Central Bank, be a purely m...Read More
Air Force ballistic missile upgrade said to be stalled over cost ... The U.S. Air Force’s program to develop and field an intercontinental ballistic missile to replace aging Minuteman III weapons is stalled over Pentagon concerns the service underestimated the cost by billions of dollars, according to a defense official familiar with the program. - Stars and StripesThe Pentagon seems to be g...Read More
Russia leaves the Dollar based monetary system and adopts a system of Sovereign Currency. The implications are phenomenal! "In 1990 the first priority of Washington and the IMF was to pressure Yeltsin and the Duma to "privatize" the State Bank of Russia, under a Constitutional amendment that mandated the new Central Bank of Russia, like the Federal Reserve or European Central Bank, be a purely m...Read More
Air Force ballistic missile upgrade said to be stalled over cost ... The U.S. Air Force’s program to develop and field an intercontinental ballistic missile to replace aging Minuteman III weapons is stalled over Pentagon concerns the service underestimated the cost by billions of dollars, according to a defense official familiar with the program. - Stars and StripesThe Pentagon seems to be g...Read More